Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2017
The mysterious Hajime Botnet continues to grow and reached 300,000 IoT Devices, the author also implemented a new attack method. Recently experts from Symantec spotted a new IoT botnet dubbed HajimeĀ that isĀ spreading quickly in the last months, mostly in Brazil and Iran. TheĀ Hajime malware was first spotted in October 2016, it implements the same mechanism […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2017
Symantec observed the Hajime IoT malware leaving a message on the devices it infects, is it the work of a cyber vigilante? The Mirai botnetĀ is the most popular thingbot, it is targeting poorly configured and flawed āInternet of Thingsā devices sinceĀ August 2016, when the threat was first discovered by the researcher MalwareMustDie. Many other botsĀ threaten […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2015
A new strain of malware identified by Symantec as the Vigilante malware, aka Wifatch, has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the world. Who is infecting thousands of IoT devices across the world, and why? A new strain of malware, identified by Symantec asĀ Linux.WifatchĀ has infected tens of thousands of IoT devices across the […]
