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Inside Water Barghest’s Rapid Exploit-to-Market Strategy for IoT Devices (www.trendmicro.com)

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Water Barghest, which comprised over 20,000 IoT devices by October 2024, monetizes IoT devices by exploiting vulnerabilities and quickly enlisting them for sale on a residential proxy marketplace.
Its botnet uses automated scripts to find and compromise vulnerable IoT devices sourced from public internet scan databases like Shodan.
Once IoT devices are compromised, the Ngioweb malware is deployed, which runs in memory and connects to command-and-control servers to register the compromised device as a proxy.
The monetization process, from initial infection to the availability of the device as a proxy on a residential proxy marketplace, can take as little as 10 minutes, indicating a highly efficient and automated operation.

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