Experts at security firm Doctor Web discovered a new botnet of IoT devices leveraging the Linux.ProxyM, that is used by crooks for mass spam mailings. The thingbot is very effective, on an average, each infected device can send out 400 of such emails per day. The number of devices infected with Linux. proxyM reached 10,000 units in July since its discovery in February 2017. Most of the infected devices are located in Brazil and the US, followed by Russia, India, Mexico, Italy, Turkey, Poland, France and Argentina.”]
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