Mobile devices become bots – deliver 275,000 hits/minute in DDoS attack
SC Magazine reports that mobile devices were enlisted into a DDoS botnet and delivered a max hit rate of 275,000 HTTP GETS/minute to the target. The total hits were around 4.5B, so that works out to about 7 hits/mobile device. The theory is that an ad-serving network was used to deliver a malicious Javascript attack…