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Lizard Squad may be mostly behind bars, but their LizardStresser botnet has spawned more than 100 clones. According to Arbor Networks' Matthew Bing, the imitators have lit on the Internet of Things, enslaving thousands of dumb devices with code the hacker group published last year. LizardStresser is an illegal booter service …

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  1. Mark 85
    Mushroom

    IoT again...

    Kill it. Kill with fire, nuke it from space. Until the companies make security on this crap stuff a priority, they should be banished from the planet.

    Icon.... because....

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