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Until recently IoT botnets mostly consisted of Mirai and its many descendants. However, during 2018 we have seen an increase in the variety of botnets living on the Internet of Things. One prime example is Hide’N’Seek, discovered by Bitdefender in January, which is notable for its use of peer-to-peer for command-and-control communication. Though the botnet’s…

Until recently IoT botnets mostly consisted of Mirai and its many descendants. However, during 2018 we have seen an increase in the variety of botnets living on the Internet of Things. One prime example is Hide’N’Seek, discovered by Bitdefender in January, which is notable for its use of peer-to-peer for command-and-control communication. Though the botnet’s…