Reaper Botnet Has Come for the Internet

itman · Oct 21, 2017

A brand-new, and massive, internet of things (IoT) botnet is poised to bring down the internet. Maybe. Probably.

According to Check Point’s research team, this new baddie, ominously dubbed “Reaper,” is recruiting IoT devices such as IP wireless cameras and DVRs at a far faster rate than the Mirai botnet did in 2016—and it already is estimated to have infected multiple devices in more than a million organizations globally.

The analysts don’t know the intentions of the threat actors behind it, but “with previous botnet DDoS attacks causing widespread, large-scale disruption, it’s likely that an attack is being prepared,” they said.

Any DDoS attack could be far more devastating than the attack on Dyn last year—the anniversary of which is coming up. In that attack, large portions of the internet were knocked offline. A move from Reaper on the other hand could threaten the public IP infrastructure en toto.

"The end of the world may not be nigh but the internet appears to be at severe risk of compromise,” said Lee Munson, security researcher at Comparitech.com, via email.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/reaper-botnet-has-come-for-the/

ronjor · Oct 24, 2017

It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by “Mirai,” a zombie malware strain that enslaved “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale online attacks.
Now, experts are sounding the alarm about the emergence of what appears to be a far more powerful strain of IoT attack malware — variously named “Reaper” and “IoTroop” — that spreads via security holes in IoT software and hardware. And there are indications that over a million organizations may be affected already.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/reaper-calm-before-the-iot-security-storm/

JRViejo · Oct 24, 2017

Reaper is on track to become one of the largest botnets recorded in recent years — and yet nobody seems to know what it will do or when. But researchers say the damage could be bigger than last year's cyberattack.
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After quietly infecting a million devices, Reaper botnet set to be worse than Mirai by Zack Whittaker.

RockLobster · Oct 24, 2017

It will probably be another botnet for hire. An expensive one.

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