Zombie fridges, DVRs and cameras take down Netflix, Twitter, NYT and Reddit

Internet services across much of the U.S. were disrupted or temporarily taken offline in a massive distributed denial of service attack last Friday, reported CNBC.

The attack targeted thousands of devices with weak security and easy-to-guess passwords to form a botnet. Vulnerable technology can include any smart device with web connectivity.

This botnet then overwhelmed internet servers and disrupted popular services such as Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, Twitter and more.