New botnet Torii showcases next stage of IoT abuse, researchers say
The Parallax
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Security researchers have caught hackers lashing together Internet-connected devices in a botnet they’re calling Torii, which uses techniques not seen in an IoT botnet before—including intercepting and stealing data, and using the Tor Project network to hide its network traffic. The Torii botnet, which researchers named with the Japanese word for “gate” after discovering the botnet uses Tor and its network of anonymously linked computers to obscure Internet traffic, was first discovered by Bulg
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