{"id":5531,"date":"2016-09-23T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/ddos-attacks-are-primary-purpose-of-iot-malware\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:32:05","slug":"ddos-attacks-are-primary-purpose-of-iot-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/ddos-attacks-are-primary-purpose-of-iot-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS Attacks Are Primary Purpose of IoT Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the Internet of Things (IoT) market expands, the number of malware threats targeting the segment is rising as well. The ultimate goal for many of these IoT threats is to build strong botnets in order to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Symantec researchers say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/ddos-attacks-are-primary-purpose-iot-malware\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Internet of Things (IoT) market expands, the number of malware threats targeting the segment is rising as well. The ultimate goal for many of these IoT threats is to build strong botnets in order to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Symantec researchers say.<br \/>\nread more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}