📚 A New Linux Trojan Called NyaDrop Threatens the IoT Landscape

The Krebs DDoS attacks have proven that the IoT landscape is a fertile ground that can breed huge botnets capable of launching massive DDoS assaults. As such, it should be to no surprise that malware authors are now focusing their efforts on this sector and putting out new threats in the hopes of building the next Mirai botnet. One of the latest additions to the IoT malware market is a trojan codenamed Linux/NyaDrop, recently reverse engineered by MalwareMustDie, the same researcher that discovered the Mirai malware. NyaDrop dropped via brute-force attacks on Telnet ports MalwareMustDie points out in his research that this binary appeared in May, but was somewhat simplistic and not that common. Things changed after... ...