A collection of more than 400,000 connected devices – mainly home routers – for 13 days leveled a powerful application-layer attack on a online entertainment-service provider. The attack used packets designed to appear as valid requests to the targeted application with the aim of chewing up bandwidth and server resources and reached a peak rate of 292,000 requests per second, according to a report released on July 24 by security firm Imperva, which blocked the attack.

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