Permanent Denial-of-Service attack with IOT devices-BrickerBot

PDoS is an attack that harms a system so severely that it requires substitution or re-installation of hardware.By abusing security defects or misconfigurations, PDoS can decimate the firmware or potentially functions of system.

As per the analysis from Radware’s honeypot around 1,895 PDoS attempts where recorded with malware strain BrickerBot from several location around the Globe.

It is compromising only Linux/BusyBox-based IoT devices which have their Telnet port open and exposed publically on the Internet.

Attack classified into two stages.

• BrickerBot.1  –  short-lived bot.
• BrickerBot.2  –  Bot that initiates PDoS attempts.

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