Security News

"Wicked" Variant of Mirai Botnet Emerges
2018-05-17 18:21

A new variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has emerged, which features new exploits in its arsenal and distributing a new bot, Fortinet researchers warn. read more

Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
2018-05-09 02:31

Researchers infected devices and totted up all the 'leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs' Website in 2016 cost...

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks
2018-04-06 19:24

Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector.

A Mirai Botnet Postscript: Lessons Learned
2018-03-19 16:16

Threatpost's Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint and Akamai to discuss how the two companies worked together to address the 2016 Mirai DDoS attacks.

Mirai Variant Sets Up Proxy Servers on Compromised Devices
2018-02-22 18:18

A newly observed variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is capable of setting up proxy servers on the infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Fortinet warns. read more

Researchers Connect Lizard Squad to Mirai Botnet
2018-01-29 16:35

Lizard Squad and Mirai, which are responsible for a series of notorious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, are connected to one another, a recent ZingBox report reveals. read more

Mirai-Based Masuta Botnet Weaponizes Old Router Vulnerability
2018-01-24 23:27

A new Internet of Things-targeting piece of malware based on Mirai’s publicly released source code has been observed at large, ensnaring devices into a botnet. read more

Satori Author Linked to New Mirai Variant Masuta
2018-01-23 23:52

Two related Mirai variants called Masuta and PureMasuta have links to a hacker identified as Nexus Zeta.

Mirai Variant Targets ARC CPU-Based Devices
2018-01-16 20:07

A newly discovered variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet is targeting devices with ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) embedded processors, researchers warn. read more

New Mirai Okiru Botnet targets devices running widely-used ARC Processors
2018-01-15 11:33

The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more extensive and is most likely to grow exponentially in 2018. Although the original creators of Mirai DDoS botnet have already been arrested...