Security News > 2020 > April > Potent 'dark_nexus' IoT Botnet Emerges

A recently identified Internet of Things botnet has modules developed in a manner that makes it significantly more "Potent and robust" than other IoT botnets, Bitdefender's security researchers say.

Dubbed dark nexus and featuring a modular architecture, the threat shares some features with previously observed pieces of malware, and even reuses Qbot and Mirai code, but its core modules appear mostly original.

Supposedly the work of a known botnet author named greek.

Helios, dark nexus was designed for distributed denial of service services, and it can hide generated traffic as innocuous browser-generated traffic.

Together with pieces of evidence from the malware author's YouTube channel, and correlated with the fact that the developer sells DDoS services and botnet code, this led the researchers to the conclusion that greek.

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