News Raspberry Pi Malware Infects Using Default Username and Password

[Admin]

John Hammond takes a look at this Raspberry Pi Malware that uses a remote access trojan (or RAT) to infect and spread across Raspberry Pis.

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[bit_user]

This piece is an important reminder! No device is too insignificant to be used as an attack vector or in a bot net. If it has a network stack, it should be considered a target.

The practice of having default user accounts and passwords is way beyond obsolete. Upon installation, I change not only the password of my pi user account, but also the username.

More importantly, if you have a wifi router, definitely change any default password on it.