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Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by SJSmith to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not particularly security savvy, but :

The infected devices then attempt to crack the telnet password by guessing default and commonly used credential pairs.

My understanding is that the worm is targetting connected devices with supidly simple credentials, which is why "Internet-of-Things" is mentioned?

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer 16 points 10 months ago

Looking at sites like insecam.org, the amount of devices still sett to admin/admin is frighteningly high