Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets that are backed by the Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 individual hijacked devices. A significant number ...

Recent attacks are targeting Next.js servers and pose a significant threat of cryptomining and other malicious activity to ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

The malware behind last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack in the U.S. appears to be losing its potency. Ironically, hackers are to blame for diluting its power. The malware known as ...

A new variant of Mirai malware is targeting a recently uncovered critical vulnerability in network-attached storage devices and exploiting them to rope the machines into an Internet of Things botnet.

A 22-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for renting and developing Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets used in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world.

The new V3G4 variant of Mirai, which creates botnets for DDoS attacks, exploited 13 different vulnerabilities in three campaigns over a six-month period, Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 team reports. Once ...

According to security analysis, the Gayfemboy botnet, based on the notorious Mirai malware, is currently spreading around the world. Researchers from Chainxin X Lab found that cybercriminals have been ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corero Network Security, the specialists in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection solutions, announced today a new threat research report, ...

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest ...

The IoT-targeted malware has also added new exploits for initial compromise, for Huawei, Realtek and Dasan GPON devices. Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have ...