{"id":88926,"date":"2024-07-18T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forescoutstage.wpengine.com\/?p=88926"},"modified":"2024-08-16T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:35:04","slug":"emerging-iot-wiper-malware-kaden-and-new-lolfme-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forescout.com\/blog\/emerging-iot-wiper-malware-kaden-and-new-lolfme-botnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging IoT Wiper Malware: Kaden and New LOLFME Botnet Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Wiper Malware?<\/h2>\n

Wipers are malware that delete data on a device or make it inaccessible. They can be used for sabotage, to destroy evidence of an attack or simply to make a device unusable. IoT wipers often rewrite important parts of the firmware of an IoT device, rendering that device useless, so they are also known as \u201cbrickers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Recent notorious examples of IoT wipers are AcidRain<\/a> which was used by a Russian APT to brick satellite modems in Europe at the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. \u00a0AcidPour<\/a>, a newer variant of AcidRain, was used in attacks against Ukrainian telecommunication networks in 2024. However, IoT wipers have existed since at least 2017. Brickerbot<\/a> is the first known example.<\/p>\n

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Riskiest Connected Devices in 2024 \u2013 IT, IoT, OT, IoMT<\/h4>\n

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Here, we show how we used past examples of IoT wipers to find emerging wiper behavior on two botnets that we believe are currently under development:<\/p>\n