New, rapidly evolving IoT botnet Dark Nexus targets wide variety of devices

Security researchers are tracking a new botnet that has been in rapid development for the past several months and targets embedded devices with binaries that are cross-compiled for 12-CPU architectures.

According to a new report from security vendor Bitdefender, the Dark Nexus botnet borrows ideas and features from previously successful IoT threats like Qbot and Mirai, but is largely an original creation by an established malware developer who advertises distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services on YouTube and other social media websites.

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