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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...

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...

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

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

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


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...

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...

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.…