"New, Rapidly Evolving IoT Botnet Dark Nexus Targets Wide Variety of Devices"

Security researchers at Bitdefender, have been following a bot called Dark Nexus since December.  It is currently at version 4.  In the three months that it was researched, the researchers observed over 30 iterations to the bot. The developer of the bot made improvements to add features such as customizable DDoS attack techniques, improved scanning and infection routines, and a persistence mechanism. The bot client is cross-compiled for 12-CPU architectures, which means  Dark Nexus can infect a wide variety of devices such as digital video recorders, routers, and surveillance cameras.  The botnet is currently small and only consists of around 1,400 devices spread around the world.  Because of the rapid pace in the development of this botnet, and since the creator of this botnet has a lot of experience, this botnet could be a severe threat in the future.  

CSO reports: "New, Rapidly Evolving IoT Botnet Dark Nexus Targets Wide Variety of Devices"