“Unit 42”, the cyber security team of Palo Alto Networks, discovered new variants of the well-known IoT botnets Mirai and Gafgyt.
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“Unit 42”, the cyber security team of Palo Alto Networks, discovered new variants of the well-known IoT botnets Mirai and Gafgyt.
On September 21, 2016, I(o)T security analyst Brian Krebs’s website became the target of a huge, extraordinary DdoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack – possible only through poor IoT security – and a resourceful hacker.
With the millions of devices connected to the Internet, malware finds a perfect breeding ground. The latest scare is a new IoT botnet called “Hide n’ Seek” or short “HNS”. Appearing for the first time around January 10th this year, […]
‘Reaper’ is the new scare. But we’re not lost. We all could do something about it. As well as consumers and especially as manufacturers of IoT devices.
In a recent tweet, researcher Ankit Anubhav, specialized in IoT security, drew attention on a list circling the internet, containing thousands of IP addresses of IoT devices including their login data. Many of the devices are still accessible via Telnet, some of them already have been taken over by botnets. What baffles is that despite the many incidents related to poorly secured IoT devices and constant warnings from security professionals, most of the logins couldn’t been easier to guess: When “admin:admin” or “root:123456” grants access to a device, calling it “hacking” to take control already sounds like an insult. My plea: Think of security first, when you think of the IoT!
In a recent report, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) a US-based think tank warns about future threats we face as a result of increasing numbers of being connected online within the Internet of Things. The report “Rise of The Machines” states, that the recent DDoS attacks carried out by a Botnet of thousands of machines infected with the Mirai-Malware was just the beginning of what we’re going to see in the future. Additionally it calls for stricter regulations of IoT-Devic
