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Tengu Botnet Reboots Linux Devices When Killed
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A Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu uses a Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper via Telnet brute force. Tengu supports 25 DDoS methods and runs a SOCKS5 proxy.
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