The worm of new type unites Linux-routers in a botnet
Posted: March 25th, 2009 | Tags: Botnet |Experts from DroneBL have detected very unusual botnet, consisting not from personal computers of Internet users, but from DSL-modems and routers.
According to the research, a worm under the name psyb0t is responsible for the creation of the botnet. Network devices on the basis of Mipsel platform — variant of Debian Linux for processors MIPS are the subject of infection. Attack is made by exhaustive search of combinations of a login and the password under the list; after successful breaking psyb0t closes access to a router for other users and incorporates with the botnet.
DroneBL experts mark that they have detected the malicious program during reflexion of the DDoS-attack routed on their servers. The worm, presumably, is unique and extends in the Network from the beginning of the year. At a rough guess, the botnet, organised with the help psyb0t, can consist of more than 100 thousand network devices.
It is informed also that some days ago the botnet has ceased to show activity. However the given information is not confirmed yet.
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