Tag: hide’n’seek
-
VB2018 paper: Hide’n’Seek: an adaptive peer-to-peer IoT botnet
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…
-
VB2018 paper: Hide’n’Seek: an adaptive peer-to-peer IoT botnet
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…
-
VB2018 preview: IoT botnets
For a long time IoT-botnets were just one of those things security professionals warned about. Then, with the appearance of Mirai in 2016, they became a reality. Mirai’s success in performing DDoS attacks, combined with the leak of the botnet’s source code, has led to a great many descendants, some of which stay closer to…
-
VB2018 preview: IoT botnets
For a long time IoT-botnets were just one of those things security professionals warned about. Then, with the appearance of Mirai in 2016, they became a reality. Mirai’s success in performing DDoS attacks, combined with the leak of the botnet’s source code, has led to a great many descendants, some of which stay closer to…
-
Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet adds persistence
The Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet has received an update to make its infection persist on infected devices beyond a restart, Bitdefender reports . Though persistence is fairly common for traditional botnets that target ( Windows ) PCs, a device that is part of a botnet targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) can often be ‘cleaned’ simply…
-
Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet adds persistence
The Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet has received an update to make its infection persist on infected devices beyond a restart, Bitdefender reports . Though persistence is fairly common for traditional botnets that target ( Windows ) PCs, a device that is part of a botnet targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) can often be ‘cleaned’ simply…