The internet of insecure things just keeps getting murkier and more problematic. Researchers have determined that hackers are abusing a 12-year-old vulnerability in OpenSSH to attack the ‘internet of unpatchable things’.
Since anyone can now download the Mirai source code – it’s is even on GitHub – then players across the field, both botnet dabblers and researchers, are playing around with the malware that hijacks IoT devices and is responsible for the largest DDoS attack on record.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD