3. A10 Networks’ Babur Nawaz Khan

What’s another weekly segment without a cybersecurity story? This time it’s the steady growth of IoT and how it’s providing attackers the ability to leverage and create botnets.

Babur Nawaz Khan is A10 Networks’ senior product marketing manager.

“This, coupled with the widespread use of malware in the automated exploitation and creation of botnets, has fueled the surge of DDoS attacks in recent years. A recent example of this is the use of the Log4j vulnerability in DDoS,” said Khan.

Khan made waves for explaining how the popularity of the well-known Log4j vulnerability among malicious hackers has helped fuel the surge in DDoS attacks that A10 Networks has been monitoring. The scale of its use potentially extends to billions of devices worldwide, Khan said.

“At the same time as the disclosure of the Log4j vulnerability was being made public, A10 Networks’ analysis of hosts affected by the [vulnerability] revealed that 75% of all scanning was sourced from Russia,”  he said.

Read more from Edward Gately’s piece about how these attacks will only intensify.