"the software is purely destructive; it captures no data and asks for no ransom. Researcher Ankit Anubhav traced the malware back to its origins and found the developer, who uses the online name "Light Leafon." " Obviously this was for fun. Distraction is huge.

1. Check to see if they can get to the device and apply a default username and password
2. Create a payload or add a function statement that goes through a list of passwords

import getpass
import sys
import telnetlib
import time

#Getting the user information
user=input("Enter User name: ")
password=getpass.getpass()

#open file
iplist=open("ipfile.txt")

#Loop through IP address and execute commands
for line in  iplist:

 Host=line.strip("\n")    
 print ("Configuring Switch",Host)
 tn = telnetlib.Telnet(Host)    
 tn.read_until(b"Username: ")   
 tn.write(user.encode('ascii') + b"\n")
 tn.read_until(b"Password: ")
 tn.write(password.encode('ascii')+b"\n")
 time.sleep(2)     
 tn.write(b"enable\n")  
 time.sleep(2)
 tn.write(b"admin\n")  
 time.sleep(2)
 tn.write(b"config t\n")
 time.sleep(2)
 tn.write(b"snmp-server community Secured ro\n") 
 print ("Switch ",Host,"Configured")
 line=tn.read_some()
 tn.close()                           
 print (line)                      

#closing file 
ipfile.close()

• An eight character minimum and 64 character maximum length
• The ability to use all special characters but no special requirement to use them
• Restrict sequential and repetitive characters (e.g. 12345 or aaaaaa)
• Restrict context specific passwords (e.g. the name of the site, etc.)
• Restrict commonly used passwords (e.g. [email protected], etc.)
• Restrict passwords obtained from previous breach corpuses

— NIST Security Password Guidelines