Realtek-based devices under attack from IoT botnet

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A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors is currently under attack from a notorious DDoS botnet gang.

While Realtek released patches [PDF] before IoT Inspector published its findings last week, this was far too small of a time window for device vendors to deploy the security updates down the line to their own set of customers.

Hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices under attack from IoT botnet

A dangerous vulnerability in Realtek chipsets used in hundreds of thousands of smart devices from at least 65 vendors is currently under attack from a notorious DDoS botnet gang.

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