{"id":208366,"date":"2017-04-26T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=208366"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T09:31:06","slug":"brickerbot-back-with-a-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/208366-brickerbot-back-with-a-vengeance.html","title":{"rendered":"BrickerBot back with a vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/security.radware.com\/ddos-threats-attacks\/brickerbot-pdos-back-with-vengeance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BrickerBot<\/strong><\/a>, a Permanent Denial-of-Service (PDoS) attack platform, is back.<\/p>\n<p>In early April, Radware\u2019s Emergency Response Team identified the botnet designed to comprise IoT devices and corrupt their storage.<\/p>\n<p>Over a four-day period, Radware\u2019s honeypot recorded 1,895 PDoS attempts performed from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Radware\u2019s honeypot recorded an intense, short-lived attack from BrickerBot.1, and\u00a0a second, similar attack from BrickerBot.2 &#8211; which started PDoS attempts on the same date.<\/p>\n<p>Radware also discovered a new version of the BrickerBot PDoS attack (BrickerBot.3) with a new command sequence.<\/p>\n<p>The same honeypot also detected another similar sequence of commands, which is seen as an attack by BrickerBot.4.<\/p>\n<p>The systems\u00a0are using the Mirai exploit vector to compromise the target.<\/p>\n<p>Any &#8220;busybox&#8221; based Linux device &#8211; like IoT devices such as IP cameras &#8211; which\u00a0has Telnet exposed publically and has factory-default credentials are a potential victim.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/207806-us-preparing-charges-against-wikileaks-julian-assange.html\">US preparing charges against WikiLeaks\u2019 Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radware\u2019s Emergency Response Team has identified a new botnet designed to comprise IoT devices and corrupt their storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":208372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[42824,26588,42826,42828],"class_list":["post-208366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-brickerbot","tag-iot","tag-pdos","tag-permanent-denial-of-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208450,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208366\/revisions\/208450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}