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Is there an Internet-of-Things vigilante out there?
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigilante-malware-makes-you-safer/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/01/vigila..., which points to this.
- rasz_pl 11y ago>ARM architectures make up the bulk of infected devices, with MIPS and SH4 making up the majority of the remaining this suggests it is NOT attacking routers (majority are mips), but chinese garbage networked cameras and such
- joshguthrie 11y ago>Resetting an infected device will remove the Wifatch malware Best. Malware. Ever.
- hoers 11y agoAs long as it's not on the chips I guess you're right.
- joshguthrie 11y agoQuestion I got afterwards was: Apart from disabling telnet, what kind of long-term modifications are made to the system? I don't mind a nice vigilante "malware" that disables out-of-date daemons, but I mind if suddenly it added an opening for something else.