[Trend]The Reigning King of IP Camera Botnets and its Challengers

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The Reigning King of IP Camera Botnets and its Challengers

Early this month we discussed a new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet called Persirai (detected by Trend Micro as ELF_PERSIRAI.A), which targets over 1000 Internet Protocol (IP) camera models. Currently, through Shodan and our own research, we see that 64% of tracked IP cameras with custom http servers are infected with Persirai. But, because these cameras are such common targets, there is some competition between malware.

Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog - by Trend Micro

The Reigning King of IP Camera Botnets and its Challengers

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