Tag: IoT botnet
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Patch now! The Mirai IoT botnet is exploiting TP-Link routers
Businesses should patch their TP-Link routers as soon as possible, after the revelation that a legendary IoT botnet is targeting them for …
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Mirai-style IoT botnet is now scanning for router-pwning critical vuln in Realtek kit
A denial-of-service vulnerability affecting SDKs for Realtek chipsets used in 65 vendors’ IoT devices has been incorporated into a …
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New Ttint IoT botnet exploits two zero-days in Tenda routers
Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers …
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New Ttint IoT botnet caught exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers
For almost a year, a threat actor has been using zero-day vulnerabilities to install malware on Tenda routers and build a so-called IoT …
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Could this be the world’s most harmless IoT botnet?
When researchers investigate suspected malware on an IoT device they normally expect to find a cryptominer to earn a hacker digital cash or …
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For 8 years, a hacker operated a massive IoT botnet just to download Anime videos
For almost eight years, a hacker has silently hijacked D-Link NVRs (network video recorders) and NAS (network-attached storage) devices …
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Naive IoT botnet wastes its time mining cryptocurrency
Security researchers from Romanian antivirus vendor Bitdefender have discovered a botnet that infects home routers and other Internet of …
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IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800,000 devices
The crime outlined in the court documents started with the advent in late 2016 of Mirai, a botnet that changed the DDoS paradigm by …
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New Miori Malware Uses Text-based Protocol to Communicate with C&C Server for Launching a DDoS Attack
A new Mirai variant dubbed Miori uses text-based protocols to establish communication with command-and-control (C&C) servers. The Miori …
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IoT botnet targeting your enterprise? Nope. Just a kid with an ExploitDB account
Headlines like “IoT botnet targets enterprise devices” sound very scary, but the reality is that many of these botnets are the work of kids …
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IoT botnet used in YouTube ad fraud scheme
The security research team at American ISP CenturyLink have discovered that an IoT botnet is proxying traffic for an YouTube video ad fraud …
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Spam-spewing IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers using five-year-old flaw
Security researchers are warning that a botnet has been exploiting a five-year-old vulnerability to hijack home routers over the last …
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