[122814] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon Feb 22 11:03:53 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:03:09 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1266851844.24784.1.camel@petrie.dereferenced.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/22/10 5:17 PM, William Pitcock wrote:
> 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?
Absolutely nothing. I think it is mentioned in the PC World story
though. Thanks for bringing it up.
Gadi.
> William
>
