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Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time
2018-09-19 16:54

Citing "extraordinary cooperation" with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using...

Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail
2018-09-19 14:18

Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to...

Mirai Authors Avoid Prison After Working With FBI
2018-09-19 07:29

Three individuals who last year admitted creating and using the notorious Mirai botnet have avoided prison after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations, the U.S. Department of Justice...

Mirai, Gafgyt Botnets Return to Target Infamous Apache Struts, SonicWall Flaws
2018-09-10 14:23

By implementing the "Equifax bug," it's the first known time a Mirai IoT botnet variant has targeted an Apache Struts vulnerability.

Mirai Variant Cross-Compiles Attack Code with Aboriginal Linux
2018-08-24 19:32

The approach makes Mirai executable on a wide variety of disparate IoT devices and platforms from a single server.

Cross-Platform Mirai Variant Leverages Open-Source Project
2018-08-23 17:35

A newly discovered Mirai variant has been created using an open-source project that makes the process of cross compilation very easy, Symantec reports. read more

Mirai botnet strikes again: This time it's going after a specific open source project
2018-08-23 16:01

Mirai-powered botnet targets the Internet of Things (IoT) via an open source project named Aboriginal Linux.

Mirai, Gafgyt IoT Botnet Attacks Intensify
2018-07-23 14:24

Security researchers are warning of a new wave of attacks associated with two infamous Internet of Things (IoT) botnets: Mirai and Gafgyt. read more

Mirai Variants Continue to Spawn in Vulnerable IoT Ecosystem
2018-06-06 04:41

Mirai is the archetypal IoT botnet, first achieving infamy with a 665 Gbps DDoS attack against the KrebsOnSecurity website in September 2016. Within days, a second Mirai attack targeted the French...

How Mirai spawned the current IoT malware landscape
2018-06-04 17:24

When, in late 2016, US-based DNS provider Dyn suffered a massive DDoS attack that it resulted in the temporary unavailability of many popular online services, the name of the Mirai malware became...