An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: At least five Russian banks weathered days-long DDoS attacks this week. A wave of assaults began on Tuesday afternoon and continued over the next two days. Victims including Sberbank and Alfabank both confirmed DDoS attacks on their online services, RT reports. The attacks were powered by compromised IoT devices, according to an unnamed Russian Central Bank official. Early indications are that the Mirai IoT botnet that disrupted DNS services for scores of high-profile websites might be behind the latest attacks but this remains unconfirmed. DDoS attacks on Russian banks are far from unprecedented. The last attack on this scale affected eight major banks in October 2015. David Kennerley, director of threat research at Webroot, commented: “These latest DDoS attacks are extremely similar to the recent ones targeted at Dyn last month, and really drives home the security issues of the Internet of Things. While attacks like these are complicated, there’s still an element of basic security that could have reduced success — password management.

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