Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices

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By BeauHDDec 13, 2017, 10:30 pm336 pts
An anonymous reader writes: The author of BrickerBot -- the malware that bricks IoT devices -- has announced his retirement in an email to Bleeping Computer, also claiming to have bricked over 10 million devices since he started the "Internet Chemotherapy" project in November 2016. Similar to the authors of the…

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