Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) uncovered an IoT botnet operation that 100 times within one month. Analyzing further DCU team able to map 400,000 publicly available IPs and narrowed 90 suspicious IPs.
The botnets continue to increase, as the threat actors can abuse millions of devices to carry out malicious activities.
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Out of 90 suspicious IP DCU able to define one IP that associated with the distribution of several malicious activities including malware, phishing emails, ransomware, and DDoS attacks.
The issue has been further reported by DCU to Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB), who tracked down the illegal VPN IP quickly and the accounts behind it.
Generally, cybercriminals use compromise PCs to launch cyberattacks, but this time an IOT LED light control console is used. MJIB managed to shut down the device quickly.
“This case marks a milestone. That’s because we were able to take down the IoT device and secure the breach to a limited range for those compromised computers in Taiwan, which is quite different from our previous global cooperation cases,” says Director Fu-Mei Wu, who leads the MJIB’s
In the IoT Ecosystem, Not too long ago in history, the idea that people and objects could be inter-connected would be considered absurd, it also posses some major risks.
“The MJIB is busy with cases of computer intrusions and cyberattacks, with the trend increasing over the last two years. These hackers are targeting the government and the technology industry, trying to steal and leak confidential information and launch full information warfare campaigns.”
Earlier Microsoft has taken down the infamous Necurs botnet that impacted more than nine million computers worldwide. The Necurs botnet is the largest spam and malware botnet.
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