New, more-powerful IoT botnet infects 3,500 devices in 5 days

reader comments 7 Share this story There’s a new, more powerful Internet-of-things botnet in town, and it has managed to infect almost 3,500 devices in just five days, according to a recently published report. Linux/IRCTelnet, as the underlying malware has been named, borrows code from several existing malicious IoT applications.

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