This article seems a bit confused about how the worm is spread: It is a simple bruit force password attack, targeted at mipsel Linux-based routers. The post at

This article seems a bit confused about how the worm is spread: It is a simple bruit force password attack, targeted at mipsel Linux-based routers. The post at DroneBL (linked to by the article) seems to be a better read: http://www.dronebl.org/blog/8 http://www.dronebl.org/blog/8