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Researchers at Netscout's ASERT Team have been tracking the growth of botnets originating in Egypt and targeting routers in South Africa. The payload is a variant of the Hakai DDoS bot.
Richard Hummel is threat intelligence manager at Netscout, and he joins us to share their findings.
The original research is here:
https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/realtek-sdk-exploits-rise-egypt
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By The CyberWireResearchers at Netscout's ASERT Team have been tracking the growth of botnets originating in Egypt and targeting routers in South Africa. The payload is a variant of the Hakai DDoS bot.
Richard Hummel is threat intelligence manager at Netscout, and he joins us to share their findings.
The original research is here:
https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/realtek-sdk-exploits-rise-egypt
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices