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Hacker operated a massive IoT botnet just to download Anime videos for 8 years
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That's what I call dedication.
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That's madness in the greatest and non-aggressive form. Like:
How many people waste their talents like this. Undetected, 8 f*ckin years!
From article:
So what his now his only, no one other can exploit what's he exploiting.
He infects the system, than patch system against the exploited vulnerability in order to prevent others to enter via the same path. If you know other path, you still can infect the system.
More technical info here (or just in case you don't want to visit ZDnet for some reason): https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/botnets-nas-nvr-devices
Well... "Attempted" as it say, it still failed to "owned" the device it you read the full report.
Men of culture should never be punished.
End of.
Well, if you are trying on something, you are always trying, if it hits its, well and good, else there are always more. .. thats how this works.
Not really.
There was even a case a while back of someone using a vulnerability to remotely patch all the affected systems without doing anything else in the system.
A good botnet, rare these days.