Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Mirai Botnet.
Linux devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) are vulnerable to NoaBot. This botnet is linked to crypto-mining activities and is another form of the previously known botnet Mirai. What sets NoaBot apart is its ability to duplicate itself, and that is also where its greatest danger lies. ... Read more
4 months ago
Hackers exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities to connect routers and surveillance cameras to a botnet. They then deploy the botnet for DDoS attacks. At least 7,000 devices are vulnerable. Researchers at Akamai tracked down the zero-day vulnerabilities and warned of the danger in a blog on Tuesda... Read more
5 months ago
A new form of malware has emerged that exploits dozens of flaws, targeting and attacking millions of routers and ‘Internet of Things’ devices. First detailed by AT&T Alien Labs researchers, the ‘BotenaGo' malware is written in the open-source programming language Golang and deployed with ... Read more
2 years ago
Ransomware is surging, according to the latest Global Threat Landscape Report from FortiGuard Labs. The report, released in August, gives us a good idea of what the cybersecurity landscape looks like. Threat intelligence from the first half of this year shows a tenfold increase in ransomware att... Read more
3 years ago
Cloudflare reported that its system managed to stop the most significant DDoS attack on record in July. In a post explaining what happened, Cloudflare said the attack was 17.2 million requests-per-second, about three times larger than the next biggest one ever recorded. Omer Yoachimik, the... Read more
3 years ago
The infamous botnet Mirai is back. A new variant of the botnet focuses on business IoT devices. In this way, Mirai collects a great deal of bandwidth in order to be able to carry out DDoS attacks. Mirai takes advantage of vulnerabilities that usually arise from unpatented software. A hacker who offe... Read more
5 years ago
