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Embedded Linux-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets have emerged as the focus of a novel botnet named PumaBot.

Developed in Go, this botnet aims to perform brute-force assaults on SSH instances to grow in magnitude and scope while deploying extra malware to the compromised hosts.

“Instead of scanning the web, the malware obtains a list of targets from a command-and-control (C2) server.”

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