Such elevated prevalence of online devices in the U.S. has been attributed to the highly decentralized nature of its health system, a report from Censys revealed.

China, the U.S., Canada, and Germany were most targeted by attacks with the Mirai source code-based Gorilla botnet, which involved the exploitation of UDP flood, Valve Source Engine flood, ACK BYPASS flood, ACK flood, and SYN flood techniques, as well as an old Apache Hadoop YARN RPC vulnerability, an analysis from NSFOCUS revealed.

Nearly 34% of over 198,000 internet-exposed devices affected by the CUPS flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-47176, CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, and CVE-2024-47177, could be leveraged for DDoS attacks, which involve the delivery of a packet designating a target as an additional printer.