An IoT worm Silex, developed by a 14 year old resulted in malware attack and taking down 2000 devices – Security Boulevard
It’s trashing the storage, dropping the iptables rules, removing the network configuration and then halting the device. pic.twitter.com/Ue661ku0fy
It deletes the devices’ firewall rules and then removes its network config and triggers a restart, this way the devices get bricked. Victims are advised to manually reinstall the device’s firmware for recovering. This malware attack might remind you of the BrickerBot malware that ended up destroying millions of devices in 2017.