[122811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon Feb 22 10:17:40 2010
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B829302.30701@linuxbox.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:17:24 -0600
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:21 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Last week Czech researchers released information on a new worm which
> exploits CPE devices (broadband routers) by means such as default
> passwords, constructing a large DDoS botnet. Today this story hit
> international news.
>
What makes this any different than psyb0t, which was discovered in the
wild last year?
William
