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Security researcher discovers an enhanced IoT botnet that can brick devices

BrickerBot is a permanent denial-of-service botnet for IoT devices like smart toasters. These new iterations of BrickerBot have 4 times as many attacks as before and prove that companies need to get serious about IoT devices.
 
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