ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware
Cybersecurity scientists have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-related clever equipment in the wild to conduct nefarious jobs, largely DDoS assaults, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining.
Identified by Qihoo 360’s Netlab protection group, the HEH Botnet — created in Go language and armed with a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, spreads by way of a brute-force assault of the