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“Considering the rudimentary techniques of Moose employed to gain access to other devices, it seems unfortunate that the security of embedded devices doesn’t seem to be taken more seriously by vendors. We hope that our efforts will help to better understand how the malicious actors are targeting their devices,” says Olivier Bilodeau, Malware Researcher at ESET.

Read more on this phenomenon in an in-depth security research paper titled ‘Dissecting Linux/Moose’, get a quick sneak peak in Linux/Moose in a blogpost on WeLiveSecurity.com or read an opinion piece by Graham Cluley:http://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/05/26/moose-router-worm.

Raphael Labaca Castro
Editor In Chief, WeLiveSecurity.com