Category Archives: HNS

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→

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→