New research shows how unknown threat actors are using a 12-year-old vulnerability in OpenSSH to secretly gain control of millions of connected devices. Akamai Technologies estimates that over 2 Million IoT and networking devices have been compromised by SSHowDowN type attacks. The company is offering up to $50,000 prize money to find out how to protect IoT devices before hackers cause a disastrous situation. The attack exploits over a decade old default configuration flaw that was initially discovered in 2004 and patched in early 2005.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/sshowdown-iot-security.html