Lizard Squad hacked thousands of cameras to attack websites

Thousands of web-connected CCTV cameras and webcams have been taken over by hackers to carry out cyber attacks on government department websites and online banks.

The network of compromised cameras was uncovered by researchers at security firm Arbor Networks, who reported that large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks took down websites by flooding them with traffic.

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