Mirai

Mirai authors avoid the jail by helping US authorities in other investigations

Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other…

6 years ago

Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting…

6 years ago

Mirai and Gafgyt target Apache Struts and SonicWall to hit enterprises

Security experts with Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new variants of the Mirai and Gafgyt IoT malware…

6 years ago

A new Cross-Platform Mirai Variant appeared in the wild

A new cross-platform Mirai variant appeared in the threat landscape, this one has been created using an open-source project. Security…

6 years ago

Experts warn of new campaigns leveraging Mirai and Gafgyt variants

Security experts are warning of an intensification of attacks powered by two notorious IoT botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt. Security experts…

6 years ago

Satori botnet is back again, experts observed a surge in port scan activity associated with it

This week, security experts observed a surge in port 8000 scan activity, researchers at  Qihoo 360 Netlab determined that the…

6 years ago

It’s not a joke, Owari botnet operators used root as username and password to access a C&C

Security expert Ankit Anubhav discovered a Command and Control server for the Owari botnet protected with weak credentials. An IoT…

6 years ago

Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements

Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear…

6 years ago

Updated – The new Wicked Mirai botnet leverages at least three new exploits

Security experts from Fortinet have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet dubbed 'Wicked Mirai', it includes new exploits…

6 years ago

Satori Botnet is targeting exposed Ethereum mining pools running the Claymore mining software

While a new variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet, so-called Wicked Mirai, emerged in the wild the operators of the Mirai Satori…

6 years ago

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