Collaborate Disseminate
Well, that did not take long.
Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army of million devices.
Security researchers from Chinese-… Continue reading 5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws
This is not the first IoT heavy botnet, Mirai takes that title, the interesting part is the Hajime botnet appears to be benign. So far no malicious functions have been detected in the codebase, other than the ability to replicate itself and block other malware, Hajime seems to have no DDoS or offensive mechanisms. Hajime […]
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Continue reading Hajime Botnet Reaches 300,000 Hosts With No Malicious Functions
Last week, we reported about a so-called ‘vigilante hacker’ who hacked into at least 10,000 vulnerable ‘Internet of Things’ devices, such as home routers and Internet-connected cameras, using a botnet malware in order to supposedly secure them.
Now, t… Continue reading Hajime ‘Vigilante Botnet’ Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide