I personally see Brickerbot as the IoT version of Shodan. Port scanning and probing is considered illegal and immoral in many countries around the world yet Shodan has made the Internet more secure, by opening access to port scanning and making it impossible for companies to just "hide" new tools.
I'd prefer to see ISPs/governments taking action against dangerous IoT devices in their network (sending probes to vulnerable devices and blocking Internet access until the owners of the devices have secured their shit or provide proof of running a honeypot). We can't really expect such measures from companies right now, but a tool like Brickerbot might kickstart a movement.
I'd prefer the bot to just change the password and disable vulnerable services though (which still might brick devices if their web servers are vulnerable). Still, I do believe that why device fallen to Brickerbot would have fallen to any other botnet within days anyway, so the botnet is not inherently bad in my opinion.
This problem should stary disappearing as soon as legislation is introduced by governments to make the parties producing software or hardware responsible for the stuff they dump on the open market. Until then, steps have to be taken to stop DDoS attacks as they are getting worse and worse.
I'd prefer to see ISPs/governments taking action against dangerous IoT devices in their network (sending probes to vulnerable devices and blocking Internet access until the owners of the devices have secured their shit or provide proof of running a honeypot). We can't really expect such measures from companies right now, but a tool like Brickerbot might kickstart a movement.
I'd prefer the bot to just change the password and disable vulnerable services though (which still might brick devices if their web servers are vulnerable). Still, I do believe that why device fallen to Brickerbot would have fallen to any other botnet within days anyway, so the botnet is not inherently bad in my opinion.
This problem should stary disappearing as soon as legislation is introduced by governments to make the parties producing software or hardware responsible for the stuff they dump on the open market. Until then, steps have to be taken to stop DDoS attacks as they are getting worse and worse.