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Should You Fear the Reaper (IoTroop) Botnet?

October 28, 2026 by Marcus Lee
Should You Fear the Reaper?

In October 2017 Check Point and Qihoo 360 Netlab warned of Reaper, also called IoTroop, an IoT botnet that exploits device flaws rather than default passwords.

Categories Cybersecurity Tags Check Point, IoT botnet, IoTroop, Mirai, Qihoo 360 Netlab, Reaper
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