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New IoT botnet discovered: Dark Nexus

Bitdefender researchers have found a new IoT botnet named the botnet “dark_nexus” based on a string it prints in its banner. A new IoT botnet, discovered by Bitdefender researchers, is named Dark Nexus. In one of its earliest versions, it used this name in its user agent string when carrying out exploits over HTTP: “dark_NeXus_Qbot/4.0”,...

Most IoT transactions are not secure

The majority of Internet of Things (IoT) transactions don’t use even basic security, and there is a great deal of unauthorized IoT taking place inside the perimeter of enterprise firewalls thanks to shadow IT, a new study finds. Security vendor Zscaler analyzed nearly 500 million IoT transactions from more than 2,000 organizations over a two-week...