Mirai

New variant of the Mirai Botnet targets the financial industry

Early this year at least three European financial institutions were hit by DDoS attacks powered by a new variant of…

6 years ago

OMG botnet, the first Mirai variant that sets up proxy servers on vulnerable devices

Researchers at Fortinet have discovered the OMG botnet, the first Mirai variant that sets up proxy servers on the compromised…

6 years ago

Mirai Okiru botnet targets for first time ever in the history ARC-based IoT devices

Researcher @unixfreaxjp spotted the first time ever in the history of computer engineering a Linux malware designed to infect ARC CPU,…

6 years ago

Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online

The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available.…

6 years ago

Satori is the latest Mirai botnet variant that is targeting Huawei HG532 home routers

Satori botnet, Mirai variant, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532…

6 years ago

US DoJ charges 3 Men with developing and running the Mirai Botnet

The US DoJ announced plea agreements for Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, 21 for creating and operating the…

6 years ago

A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, around 100,000 IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours

A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, experts observed around 100K IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours…

6 years ago

Using Unsecured IoT Devices, DDoS Attacks Doubled in the First Half of 2017

According to a report recently published by the security firm Corero the number of DDoS Attacks doubled in the First…

6 years ago

One Third of The Internet Has Seen a DDoS Attack In The Past Two Years

A group of researchers has conducted a rigorous comprehensive characterization of this DDoS attacks and of countermeasures to mitigate the associated risks.…

6 years ago

A new Mirai-Like IoT Botnet is growing in a new mysterious campaign

Malware researchers at Check Point have uncovered a new massive IoT botnet that presented many similarities with the dreaded Mirai. The…

7 years ago

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