BrickerBot author claims two million bricked IoT devices

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'The Janitor' claims to have removed two million insecure IoT devices from circulation

The author of BrickerBot, the malware designed to infect and take down insecure Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, claims that the malware has so far taken down as many as two million devi...

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