A hacker named Light Leafon, who claimed to be 14, was responsible for a new IoT worm called Silex. The worm has attacked at least 2,000 devices since its launch and is discriminatory enough to eliminate misconfigured GNU/Linux servers. Leafon said he plans to develop this malware and add more destructive features. The teenager plans to add the ability to log into devices via SSH, besides Telnet hijacking capability. The malware destroys the IoT device memory, eliminates firewall rules, removes network configuration and shuts down devices.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/a-new-malware-called-silex-targets-iot-devices/