New IoT Botnet Discovered, 120K IP Cameras At Risk of Attack
Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that leaves than 120,000 Internet Protocol (IP) cameras vulnerable to attack.
The botnet, dubbed Persirai, was discovered targeting more than 1,000 different models of IP cameras. Persirai hits IoT devices a few months after the Mirai botnet, which wreaked havoc by compromising DVRs and CCTV cameras to fuel a massive DDoS attack in October 2016.
The researchers uncovered Persirai when they found four command and control (C&C) servers and explored the vulnerabilities associated with them, explains Jon Clay, global director of threat communications at Trend Micro.
