Tag: Malware
Persirai leads in botnet battle for connected cameras, researchers find
Research conducted by security software company Trend Micro has identified four types of botnets affecting connected cameras.
The company used custom http servers to analyze the...
IoT security: A failure to plan is planning to fail
Flickering lightbulbs, scary Barbie dolls, infected computer networks and the threat of whole cities out of action. This could be the brave new world of the...
What does the NHS ransomware attack mean for IoT in healthcare?
Last Friday, one of the biggest ransomware outbreaks in history infected over 200,000 machines in more than 150 countries. From FedEx to Telefónica, companies...
Most IoT hacks originate in Asia, honeypot data reveals
Most IoT attacks originate in Asia and seek to compromise specific types of unsecured IoT devices, such as video cameras, according to data collected...
Cloudflare launches Orbit security offering to protect IoT devices
CloudFlare has launched a new service called Orbit to help protect IoT devices against hacking and malware.
The Orbit service routes an organization’s IoT traffic through...
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...
Malwar! Hajime IoT botnet fights back against Mirai
A new malware worm known as Hajime has infected as many as 10,000 IoT devices, but has so far caused no damage.
Discovered by security...
Amnesia malware turns DVRs into botnet slaves
IT security researchers have uncovered a new strain of malware that targets digital video recorders (DVRs), turning them into botnet slaves.
According to a blog...
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...
Hackers using Linux flaws to attack IoT devices
According to the latest malware forecast from SophosLabs, the threat analysis arm of IT security supplier Sophos, malware targeting IoT devices gained momentum in 2016 and...
Newly created IoT botnet infects 3,500 connected devices
An online criminal has created a new type of malware to hack into IoT devices, push them into a botnet, to launch DDoS attacks.
The...
A million connected devices infected by botnet
A million connected devices could be infected by a Bashlite malware-powered DDoS botnet, according to Level 3 Threat Research Labs.
The botnet, uncovered by the...