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120,000 IoT cameras vulnerable to new Persirai botnet say researchers

120,000 IoT cameras vulnerable to new Persirai botnet say researchers />

11/05/2017

IoT, IP-Cameras, botnet

A new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet is targeted over 1,000 different models vulnerable of IP cameras and using the hijacked devices to carry out DDoS attacks.

Over 122,000 cameras from a variety of manufacturers are vulnerable to becoming part of the Persirai botnet - and the vast majority of owners don't even know their devices are exposed on the internet and thus easily targeted by malware.

source: zdnet

Read artice at zdnet