"FritzFrog Botnet Attacks Millions of SSH Servers"

Researchers at Guardicore Labs have discovered a peer-to-peer (P2) botnet called FritzFrog, which has been actively breaching SSH servers since January.  SSH servers are pieces of software found in routers, IoT devices, and other machines.  SSH servers use the secure shell protocol to accept connections from remote computers.  FritzFrog propagates as a worm, brute-forcing credentials at organizations like governmental offices, educational institutions, medical centers, banks, and telecom companies. FritzFrog has attempted to compromise tens of millions of machines so far and has successfully breached more than 500 servers. 

Threatpost reports: "FritzFrog Botnet Attacks Millions of SSH Servers"