Security News > 2018 > June > OMG, that's downright Wicked: Botnet authors twist corpse of Mirai into new threats
2018-06-01 16:04
Infamous IoT menace lives on in its hellspawn Cybercrooks are using the infamous Mirai IoT botnet as a framework to quickly add in new exploits and functionalities, it has emerged.…
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