A 14-year-old hacker used a new strain of malware this week to brick up to 4,000 insecure Internet of Things devices. The malware, dubbed Silex, was first discovered by Larry Cashdollar, senior security intelligence response engineer at Akamai, on his honeypot. The hacker, who got in touch with Cashdollar via Twitter, was trying to take down targets for other script kiddies who might be looking to build botnets and he was just getting sick of it
Source: https://threatpost.com/thousands-of-iot-devices-bricked-by-silex-malware/146065/