Badbox Badbox, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you.
It’s not just your PC or your phone that’s a potential cybersecurity risk these days, as Google’s recent work uncovering an internet-of-things botnet proves. Researchers working in collaboration with Human Security and Trend Micro revealed the interestingly-named Badbox 2.0 botnet earlier this month, and now Google has confirmed it’s beginning legal action against its perpetrators.
After Google and Human’s work uncovering the botnet, the FBI released a public service announcement warning of its capabilities:
„Cyber criminals gain unauthorized access to home networks through compromised IoT devices, such as TV streaming devices, digital projectors, aftermarket vehicle infotainment systems, digital picture frames and other products. Most of the infected devices were manufactured in China.
„Cyber criminals gain unauthorized access to home networks by either configuring the product with malicious software prior to the user’s purchase, or infecting the device as it downloads required applications that contain backdoors, usually during the set-up process.
