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Researchers warn that hackers have weaponized a vulnerability that could be used in an IOTroop (or Reaper) attack, bringing the likelihood of an attack one step closer. Continue reading Hackers Prepping IOTroop Botnet with Exploits
It’s difficult to have missed the headlines on the new IoT botnet threat that is forming and the storm that might come with it. Why is the world under the spell of this new threat? What makes it different from Mirai? Why could it potentially become the most threatening botnet ever seen? A history lesson […]
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Think the Mirai botnet which launched a DDoS attack that knocked major websites offline last year was bad?
It’s possible that you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Box blog.
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By Waqas
Last year the world was startled when Mirai malware managed
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It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by “Mirai,” a zombie malware strain that enslaved “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale online attacks.
Now, experts are sounding the alarm about the emergence of what appears to be a far more powerful strain of IoT attack malware — variously named “Reaper” and “IoTroop” — that spreads via security holes in IoT software and hardware. And there are indications that over a million organizations may be affected already.
Reaper isn’t attacking anyone yet. For the moment it is apparently content to gather gloom to itself from the darkest reaches of the Internet. But if history is any teacher, we are likely enjoying a period of false calm before another humbling IoT attack wave breaks. Continue reading Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?
It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by “Mirai,” a zombie malware strain that enslaved “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale online attacks.
Now, experts are sounding the alarm about the emergence of what appears to be a far more powerful strain of IoT attack malware — variously named “Reaper” and “IoTroop” — that spreads via security holes in IoT software and hardware. And there are indications that over a million organizations may be affected already.
Reaper isn’t attacking anyone yet. For the moment it is apparently content to gather gloom to itself from the darkest reaches of the Internet. But if history is any teacher, we are likely enjoying a period of false calm before another humbling IoT attack wave breaks. Continue reading Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?
Hackers have been assembling a large botnet consisting of internet-connected devices, mainly webcams and consumer routers, which they’ll soon be able to use in massive denial-of-service attacks, according to new research. Researchers from Israeli firm Check Point Technologies say they are seeing activity from infected devices in 60 percent of the networks that use their ThreatCloud product. “In just the last two days, we have seen more than 20,000 IP addresses scanning,” meaning the device at the address is infected, Group Manager for Threat Intelligence Maya Horowitz told CyberScoop Friday. Each infected device is given a list of IP addresses to scan for other vulnerable devices by its command and control, or C2, server. “When the scan is complete, the device sends the results back to the C2, telling it where there are more vulnerable devices,” Horowitz said. Given that only a few hundred networks use the ThreatCloud product, she said, “That’s a […]
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Malware dubbed IOTroop that researchers say is “worse than Mirai” has already infected one million businesses worldwide. Continue reading ‘IOTroop’ Botnet Could Dwarf Mirai in Size and Devastation, Says Researcher
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Daniel ‘BestBuy’ Kaye Extradited to the UK— Hacker Charged for
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