Rash of in-the-wild attacks permanently destroys poorly secured IoT devices
Enlarge Guinnog reader comments 107 Share this story Researchers have uncovered a rash of ongoing attacks designed to damage routers and other Internet-connected appliances so badly that they become effectively inoperable. PDoS attack bots (short for “permanent denial-of-service”) scan the Internet for Linux-based routers, bridges, or similar Internet-connected devices that require only factory-default passwords to grant […]
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