IoT devices using CoAP increasingly used in DDoS attacks

Posted on 8 March 2019

From helpnetsecurity.com

IoT CoAP DDoS weapon

IoT devices in synchronised attacks on targets represent a growing part of global Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) weapon arsenals. There is a significant potential for attackers to use an IoT-related protocol, the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), deployed on IoT devices to marshal attacks.

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