{"id":30842,"date":"2018-10-27T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30842"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:35:40","slug":"threat-of-new-malware-looms-over-cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-of-new-malware-looms-over-cyberspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat of new malware looms over cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/threat-of-new-malware-looms-over-cyberspace\/article22938070.ece\"><b>Threat of new malware looms over cyberspace<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cyber security agencies have detected a new malware called Saposhi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saposhi was detected around 15 days ago, and is currently being watched and studied.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saposhi is similar in its intensity to another malware called Reaper which had taken over millions of devices at the rate of 10,000 devices per day<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How does Saposhi work?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It takes over electronic devices and turns them into \u201cbots\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It creates a network of bots called a botnet<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It then uses the botnet to ping a single server at the same time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the numbers of pings are far beyond the server\u2019s capacity, the server crashes and denies service to its consumers. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After this, it can be used for any purpose, including a Distributed Denial of Service attack which, with enough firepower, can cripple entire industries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Instances of DDoS Attacks:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July 2016, small and medium internet service providers in Maharashtra fell prey to a DDoS attack, which caused disruption in the services of several Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another malware, Mirai, using a botnet of 5 lakh devices, had caused the servers of Dyn, a leading domain name service provider, to crash, affecting services of popular websites like Twitter, Netflix and Reddit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat of new malware looms over cyberspace Context: Cyber security agencies have detected a new malware called Saposhi What has happened? Saposhi was detected around 15 days ago, and is currently being watched and studied. Saposhi is similar in its intensity to another malware called Reaper which had taken over millions of devices at the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threat-of-new-malware-looms-over-cyberspace\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat of new malware looms over cyberspace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895998},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}