MIT Technology Review January 31, 2018
Since December, security researchers have been tracking a malware called Satori, which hijacks internet-connected devices and turns them into “zombies” that can be remotely controlled in unison. After finding a weak point in a device’s defenses, Satori probes to see if the owner has kept default passwords and settings, hoping to exploit these to gain control of the machine. If it succeeds, it then looks for other devices on a network and tries to infect them too. Some of Satori’s source code appear to be the same as that of Mirai, a botnet that in 2016 used hundreds of thousands of compromised routers, web-connected cameras, and other devices to send out a flood of data traffic that overwhelmed some key internet infrastructure in America… read more.