Tag: Brickerbot
BrickerBot creator Janit0r ‘retires’ after bricking over 10 million IoT devices
Alleged Brickerbot creator Janit0R stands down from hectic career of compromising IoT devices.
Janit0r, the alleged creator of BrickerBot, a piece of malware designed to...
BrickerBot ‘creator’ claims two million IoT devices have been destroyed
BrickerBot, a piece of malware designed to damage insecure IoT devices so badly that they become useless, has now 'bricked' as many as two million devices, according...
Radware discovers Brickerbot, which makes DOS attacks permanent
A new threat is targeting insecure IoT devices, but rather than hijack them for use in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Brickerbot instead...