Security News > 2020 > March > Russia’s FSB wanted its own IoT botnet

If you thought the Mirai botnet was bad, what about a version under the control of Russia's military that it could point like an electronic cannon at people it didn't like? That's the prospect we could face after the reported emergence of secret Russian project documents online last week.

The documents, which come from hacking group Digital Revolution but haven't been verified, suggest that Russia's Federal Security Service, has been working on an internet of things botnet of its own called Fronton.

The documents suggest, the FSB decided to get in on the act by commissioning its own botnet that would infect and control connected small footprint devices.

Each describes a botnet of infected IoT devices under the FSB's control.

The FSB seems to be at pains to hide the botnet's origin.

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