Microsoft helped stop a botnet controlled via an LED light console

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Microsoft helped stop a botnet controlled via an LED light console
April 17, 2020
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Microsoft says that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) discovered and helped take down a botnet of 400,000 compromised devices controlled with the help of an LED light control console.

The botnet was used by the threat actors who controlled it for a wide variety of purposes ranging from phishing campaigns, malware distribution, ransomware payloads delivery, and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

"To the team’s surprise, these activities correlated to as much as one terabyte (TB) of malicious content being sent out a week," Microsoft said.
LED light control console used to launch cyberattacks
"Usually, cybercriminals use compromised PCs to launch cyberattacks," Microsoft said. "But this time, the source was identified as a LED light control console, a seemingly insignificant IoT device."
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The botnet was discovered after a DCU Taiwan analyst spotted a weird botnet signal spike that eventually increased over 100 times within a single month.

This was the spark that triggered the Taiwan law enforcement officers' operation which led to the shut down of a 400K-strong botnet controlled with the help of a harmless-looking IoT device.

"This case marks a milestone," Fu-Mei Wu, the Director of MJIB’s Information and Communication Security Division, said.
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