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Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating

WIRED Threat Level

The legacy electronics manufacturer is creating IoT honeypots with its products to catch real-world threats and patch vulnerabilities in-house.

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Fake Smart Factory Honeypot Highlights New Attack Threats

Threatpost

The honeypot demonstrates the various security concerns plaguing vulnerable industrial control systems.

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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved.

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ThreatList: Malware Samples Targeting IoT More Than Double in 2018

Threatpost

A honeypot set up to sniff out data on infected IoT devices found a broad array of compromised devices – from Mikrotik routers to dishwashers.

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Hacking the hackers – IOT botnet author adds his own backdoor on top of a ZTE router backdoor

Security Affairs

The author of an IoT botnet is distributing a backdoor script for ZTE routers that also includes his own backdoor to hack script kiddies. A weaponized IoT exploit script is being used by script kiddies, making use of a vendor backdoor account to hack the ZTE routers. Backdooring rival IoT botnet operator can have several purposes.

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

Security Affairs

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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Cybersecurity in 2019: From IoT & Struts to Gray Hats & Honeypots

Dark Reading

While you prepare your defenses against the next big thing, also pay attention to the longstanding threats that the industry still hasn't put to rest.