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HEH P2P Botnet Sports Dangerous Wiper Function

P2P malware is infecting any and all types of endpoints via brute-forcing, with 10 versions targeting desktops, laptops, mobile and IoT devices. It s particularly destructive: It contains code that wipes all data from infected systems. Perhaps ironically, its operators also have a penchant for civil advocacy a loading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, visible to researchers during analysis, accompanies each infection. The botnet, dubbed HEH by researchers 360Netlab, gets its name from phrasing inside the code samples.

Source: https://threatpost.com/heh-p2p-botnet-wiper-function/159974/

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