Friday, 24 March, 2023

Malware affecting around 13,500 IoT devices globally: Barracuda Network

<p>A new variant of InterPlanetary Storm malware is targeting IoT devices &ndash; TVs, routers with ill configured SSH service etc &ndash; that run on Android, Mac, Linux and Windows OS in 84 countries, mainly southeast Asian such as China, HongKong, S Korea and Taiwan; Indian IoT devices haven&rsquo;t been much on radar. The malware detects computer security mechanism, honeypots, auto-updates itself and tries to persist in the system by killing machine processes like debuggers.</p>