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Russian Script Kiddie Assembles Massive DDoS Botnet
Over the past year, "Matrix" has used publicly available malware tools and exploit scripts to target weakly secured IoT devices — and enterprise servers.
A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet capable of disruption on a global scale. In assembling the botnet, the attacker has targeted not just vulnerable Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, as is the common practice these days, but also enterprise development and production servers, significantly increasing its potential for widespread disruption. And in something of a departure from typical DDoS campaigns, the threat actor is scanning the IP ranges of several cloud service providers for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in telnet, SSH, Hadoop YARN, and other enterprise servers.
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