August 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: Echobot Launches Widespread Attack Against IoT Devices

guest · Sep 12, 2019

August 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: Echobot Launches Widespread Attack Against IoT Devices
September 12, 2019
https://blog.checkpoint.com/2019/09...unches-widespread-attack-against-iot-devices/

In August, the research team saw an increase in a new variant of the Mirai IoT Botnet, Echobot, which has launched widespread attacks against a range of IoT devices. First seen in May 2019, Echobot has exploited over 50 different vulnerabilities, causing a sharp rise in the ‘Command Injection Over HTTP’ vulnerability which has impacted 34% of organizations globally.

August has also seen the Emotet botnet’s offensive infrastructure becoming active again, after it shut down its services two months ago. Emotet was the biggest botnet operating in the first half of 2019. Although no major campaigns have been observed as yet, it is likely that it will be used to start spam campaigns soon.
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