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When is someone going to make a robin hood malware that helps resolve these issues and fights off other malicious tools trying to use these insecure devices?
by jonshariat 10y ago
When is someone going to make a robin hood malware that helps resolve these issues and fights off other malicious tools trying to use these insecure devices?
- kimburgess 10y agoThe Mirai source is up on GitHub if anyone's considering doing this: https://github.com/0x27/linux.mirai https://github.com/0x27/linux.mirai. Regardless of any good intentions, it'd be a pretty grey area to deploy a tool that cleaned and then protected against future attacks on a device. The exploit (well, at least the one currently drawing attention) is targeted at devices running BusyBox that are compromised over telnet with a embarrassingly small dictionary attack. If you could clean any existing instances, the protection for future exploits is simple - set a randomly generated password. The downside is doing this (without approval) to remote devices would likely break device functionality. The majority of users/owners of these devices are likely completely unaware they have been compromised today as it has little to no effect on anything they can see. Sure, a robing hood malware could clean up this mess pretty effectively, but the little side effect of stopping devices from, you know, working is probably undesirable.