New Silex malware is bricking IoT devices, has scary plans

guest · Jun 25, 2019

New Silex malware is bricking IoT devices, has scary plans
Over 2,000 devices have been bricked in the span of a few hours. Attacks still ongoing
June 25, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-silex-malware-is-bricking-iot-devices-has-scary-plans/

A new strain of malware is wiping the firmware of IoT devices in attacks reminiscent of the old BrickerBot malware that destroyed millions of devices back in 2017.
Named Silex, this malware began operating earlier today, about three-four hours before this article's publication.
HOW THE SILEX MALWARE WORKS
According to Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar, who first spotted the malware earlier today, Silex works by trashing an IoT device's storage, dropping firewall rules, removing the network configuration, and then halting the device.

"It's using known default credentials for IoT devices to log in and kill the system," Cashdollar told ZDNet in an email today. "It's doing this by writing random data from /dev/random to any mounted storage it finds.
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WHO'S BEHIND THE SILEX MALWARE?
With the help of NewSky Security researcher Ankit Anubhav, ZDNet reached out to the Silex malware author with a series of questions about his motives and grand master plan.

According to Anubhav, responsible for this destructive malware is a 14-year-old teenager going online by the pseudonym of Light Leafon.
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