Security News > 2023 > November > Mysterious Kill Switch Disrupts Mozi IoT Botnet Operations
2023-11-02 13:45
The unexpected drop in malicious activity connected with the Mozi botnet in August 2023 was due to a kill switch that was distributed to the bots. "First, the drop manifested in India on August 8," ESET said in an analysis published this week. "A week later, on August 16, the same thing happened in China. While the mysterious control payload – aka kill switch – stripped Mozi bots of most
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