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Internet Census: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices (2012)

• moreira 10y ago
  > There were in fact several hundred thousand unprotected devices on the Internet making it possible to build a super fast distributed port scanner. "What're you doing?" "Just going to run this little binary on a few hundred thousand devices that don't belong to me. No big deal." It is chilling to consider that there are that many devices out there just completely open and ready to accept and binaries just like that - telnet and you're in. It used to be that botnets seemed so.... out of reach. You had to infect a large enough number of Windows machines, and you had to keep them all running without getting caught by anti viruses and whatnot. But this? Who needs to write malware when you have this?