BYOD, IoT and Mobile D. an army for DDOS attack

Every person must use an average of 3 IP connected device like Mobile Phone, Laptop, Tablets, Smart watch and other gadgets.  As the number of Internet of Thing is increasing avenue for malicious activities in the internet also increases.

Last two year September 14 2015 the Philippine Government was hit by a massive attack of DDoS (distributed denial of service) from global anonymous that lasted for more than 10 minutes.

This image show the map of the DDoS Attack

After the DDoS attack the Global Anonymous launch a massive defacement of government website.  The following are list of website targeted by the hackers group.


http://www.senate.gov.ph/
http://congress.gov.ph/
http://www.gov.ph/
http://president.gov.ph/
http://www.bir.gov.ph/
http://customs.gov.ph/
http://www.pnp.gov.ph
http://www.nbi.gov.ph
http://www.ntc.gov.ph/
http://www.doh.gov.ph
http://www.bsp.gov.ph/
http://www.marina.gov.ph/
http://www.dilg.gov.ph/
http://pia.gov.ph/
http://www.papt.org.ph
http://www.smokefree.doh.gov.ph/
http://www.mmda.gov.ph
http://www.meralco.com.ph/
http://www.doj.gov.ph/
http://titosotto.com/


Recently, most of the source of attack  are coming from mobile devices that are using  mobile browser. A researcher at CloudFlare has reported the DDoS attack sent 4.5 billion request.


Here is a current digital map of DDoS Attack as of this date Oct. 5, 2016

References:
http://www.digitalattackmap.com

http://www.scmagazine.com/ddos-attack-used-mobile-devices-to-deliver-45-billion-requests/article/441456/