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Kaiji, a new Linux malware targets IoT devices in the wild

Security Affairs

Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks. Last week, the popular security researcher MalwareMustDie and the experts at Intezer Labs spotted a new piece of malware dubbed Kaiji, that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks.

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XMR crypto miner switches from arm IoT devices to X86/I686 Intel servers

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Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar reported that a cryptocurrency miner that previously hit only Arm-powered IoT devices it now targeting Intel systems. The researchers revealed that one of his honeypots was hit by this IoT malware that targets Intel machines running Linux. “This one seems to target enterprise systems.”

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

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In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? They spoke at BlackHat USA 2021 where they launched a new tool to find IoT based CnC servers. Clearly, there needs to be another approach. Davanian: This is Ali.

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Ripple20 flaws in Treck TCP/IP stack potentially expose hundreds of millions of devices to hack

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Serious security vulnerabilities in the Treck TCP/IP stack dubbed Ripple20 expose millions of IoT devices worldwide to cyber attacks, researchers warn. The zero-day flaws reside in a popular low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck, Inc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

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Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online. Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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WAGO Industrial Switches affected by multiple flaws

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Furthermore, hardcoded password hashes and credentials were also found by doing an automated scan with IoT Inspector.” SEC Consult also discovered that WAGO industrial switches use outdated versions of the BusyBox UNIX toolkit and the GNU C Library (glibc). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite potentially affects billions of apps

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SQLite is a widely adopted relational database management system contained in a C programming library. SQLite is used by millions of applications with billions of installs, Magellan potentially affects IoT devices, macOS and Windows apps. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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