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Opportunistic botnets round up vulnerable routers. [Research Saturday]
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20 minutes
Released:
Jul 13, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Researchers at Netscout's ASERT Team have been tracking the growth of botnets originating in Egypt and targeting routers in South Africa. The payload is a variant of the Hakai DDoS bot.
Richard Hummel is threat intelligence manager at Netscout, and he joins us to share their findings.
The original research is here:
https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/realtek-sdk-exploits-rise-egypt
Richard Hummel is threat intelligence manager at Netscout, and he joins us to share their findings.
The original research is here:
https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/realtek-sdk-exploits-rise-egypt
Released:
Jul 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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