Category Archives: Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek Iot Botnet Now Set Against Android Devices

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The Hide and Seek IoT botnet has recently been updated by its creators to now target Android devices as well. The security analysis reveals that the newly released is even more dangerous than before. Our article sums up the changes…Read more
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Hide and Seek IoT Botnet Learns New Tricks: Uses ADB over Internet to Exploit Thousands of Android Devices

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Hide and Seek, a new IoT botnet discovered by our honeypot system in early January, has quickly gained notoriety after amassing over 90,000 devices in a large botnet in a matter of days. While the first variant performed brute force attacks over the Te… Continue reading Hide and Seek IoT Botnet Learns New Tricks: Uses ADB over Internet to Exploit Thousands of Android Devices→

Newsmaker Interview: Derek Manky on ‘Self-Organizing Botnet Swarms’

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Botnets fused with artificial intelligence are decentralized and self-organized systems, capable of working together toward a common goal – attacking networks. Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Derek Manky on ‘Self-Organizing Botnet Swarms’→

Hide and Seek IoT Botnet resurfaces with new tricks, persistence

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On April 30, Bitdefender researchers became aware of a new version of the Hide and Seek bot we documented earlier this year. The botnet, the world’s first to communicate via a custom-built peer to peer protocol, has now also become the first to g… Continue reading Hide and Seek IoT Botnet resurfaces with new tricks, persistence→