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Hallo beste medetweakers,
Een zoekactie met ‘IoTroop’ leverde niks op, dus lijkt het me aande hoogste tijd hier aandacht aan te schenken
A New IoT Botnet Storm is Coming
Key Points:
- A massive Botnet is forming to create a cyber-storm that could take down the internet.
- An estimated million organizations have already been infected.
- The Botnet is recruiting IoT devices such as IP Wireless Cameras to carry out the attack.
New cyber-storm clouds are gathering. Check Point Researchers have discovered a brand new Botnet, dubbed ‘IoTroop’, evolving and recruiting IoT devices at a far greater pace and with more potential damage than the Mirai botnet of 2016.
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While some technical aspects lead us to suspect a possible connection to Mirai, this is an entirely new and far more sophisticated campaign that is rapidly spreading worldwide. It is too early to guess the intentions of the threat actors behind it, but with previous Botnet DDoS attacks essentially taking down the Internet, it is vital that organizations make proper preparations and defense mechanisms are put in place before an attack strikes.
Ominous signs were first picked up via Check Point’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in the last few days of September. An increasing number of attempts were being made by hackers to exploit a combination of vulnerabilities found in various IoT devices.
With each passing day the malware was evolving to exploit an increasing number of vulnerabilities in Wireless IP Camera devices such as GoAhead, D-Link, TP-Link, AVTECH, NETGEAR, MikroTik, Linksys, Synology and others. It soon became apparent that the attempted attacks were coming from many different sources and a variety of IoT devices, meaning the attack was being spread by the IoT devices themselves.
https://research.checkpoint.com/new-iot-botnet-storm-coming/
Een zoekactie met ‘IoTroop’ leverde niks op, dus lijkt het me aande hoogste tijd hier aandacht aan te schenken
A New IoT Botnet Storm is Coming
Key Points:
- A massive Botnet is forming to create a cyber-storm that could take down the internet.
- An estimated million organizations have already been infected.
- The Botnet is recruiting IoT devices such as IP Wireless Cameras to carry out the attack.
New cyber-storm clouds are gathering. Check Point Researchers have discovered a brand new Botnet, dubbed ‘IoTroop’, evolving and recruiting IoT devices at a far greater pace and with more potential damage than the Mirai botnet of 2016.
...
While some technical aspects lead us to suspect a possible connection to Mirai, this is an entirely new and far more sophisticated campaign that is rapidly spreading worldwide. It is too early to guess the intentions of the threat actors behind it, but with previous Botnet DDoS attacks essentially taking down the Internet, it is vital that organizations make proper preparations and defense mechanisms are put in place before an attack strikes.
Ominous signs were first picked up via Check Point’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in the last few days of September. An increasing number of attempts were being made by hackers to exploit a combination of vulnerabilities found in various IoT devices.
With each passing day the malware was evolving to exploit an increasing number of vulnerabilities in Wireless IP Camera devices such as GoAhead, D-Link, TP-Link, AVTECH, NETGEAR, MikroTik, Linksys, Synology and others. It soon became apparent that the attempted attacks were coming from many different sources and a variety of IoT devices, meaning the attack was being spread by the IoT devices themselves.
https://research.checkpoint.com/new-iot-botnet-storm-coming/
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