BrickerBot Takes Down your IoT Devices Permanently
There is a new class of virii in town, specifically targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. BrickerBot and its variants do exactly as their name says, turning your smart devices into bricks. Someone out there has gotten tired of all the IoT security flaws and has undertaken extreme (and illegal) measures to fix the problem. Some of the early reports have come in from a security company called Radware, who isolated two variants of the virii in their honeypots.
In a nutshell, BrickerBot gains access to insecure Linux-based systems by using brute force. It tries to telnet in using common …read more
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