For those of you who don’t know, ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) processors are the second most widely used processors in the world and can be found in all manner of unassuming connected devices, from car tech to storage, home and mobile devices.
The new Mirai botnet, known as Mirai Okiru, is going after them with the aim knock them offline with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Independent security researcher going by the name of ‘Odisseus’ noted that this situation is pretty damn serious, noting “the landscape of Linus IoT infection will change”.
From this day, the landscape of #Linux #IoT infection will change. #ARC cpu has produced #IoT dervices more than 1 billion per year. So these devices are what the hackers want to aim to infect #ELF #malware with their #DDoS cannons.It’s a serious threat will be.#MalwareMustDie!
He may be onto something, given there are billions of devices out in the world making use of ARC processors.