Security News > 2020 > May > New Kaiji Botnet Targets IoT, Linux Devices
2020-05-05 15:32
A new botnet has been infecting internet of things devices and Linux-based servers, to then leverage them in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
The malware, dubbed Kaiji, has been written from scratch, which researchers say is "Rare in the IoT botnet landscape" today.
Finally, the botnet fetches commands from the C2 server with instructions for specific DDoS attacks.
The botnet uses a variety of attacks, including TCP, UDP, SYN and ACK flood attack capabilities, as well as IP-spoofing capabilities.
Kaiji is only one of a recent slew of botnet strains to surface, including Dark Nexus, MootBot and the DDG botnet.
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https://threatpost.com/kaiji-botnet-iot-linux-devices/155463/