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by danielcid 3537 days ago
That's a problem that will only get worse. To give an example, last year, Incapsula recorded ~9,000 IoT cameras attacking them. A few months ago, Sucuri recorded ~25,000.

CloudFlare is seeing close to 50k. And that's the attackers just using a small portion of their real power for http floods.

Our report from a few months ago breaking down the types of cameras and networking doing the attack - very similar to what CloudFlare saw:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/06/large-cctv-botnet-leveraged-...

*I work at Sucuri.