One less: IoT botnet Mozi shut down
At the end of September 2023, “Mozi” suddenly came to an end. Until the end of September 2023, the IoT botnet attacked vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of IoT devices every year. Chinese law enforcement may be responsible for the shutdown. The Internet of Things botnet Mozi exploited vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of IoT devices such as Internet routers or digital video recorders every year until the end of September 2023 - including in Germany. Mozi could use it to launch DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, exfiltrate data or execute arbitrary commands. ESET researchers were able to prove that a so-called “kill switch” heralded the end of Mozi...