The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so
Seven years ago, a cyberattack left many of the most popular websites based in the United States inaccessible.
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters
First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.
How a high-school dropout added a Huawei router zero-day to the Mirai botnet to create the formidable Satori botnet, which experts say infected 500K+ devices
Teenager behind notorious Satori botnet was an Xbox player who joined an online community that got their kicks from exploiting vulnerabilities …
Amid a noticeable uptick in Mirai botnet activity, a Palo Alto Networks report says a new Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems
Security researchers spot new Mirai botnet with an enhanced arsenal of IoT exploits. — Security researchers have spotted …
Kaspersky Lab's DDoS trends report: number of DDoS attacks dropped 13% YoY in 2018, but the average duration of attacks grew from 95 min in Q1 to 218 min in Q4
News overview — In Q4 2018, security researchers detected a number of new botnets, which included not only Mirai clones for a change.
Researchers calculate that Mirai botnet DDoS attack on KrebsOnSecurity, which lasted 77 hours and used 24,000 unsecured IoT devices, cost device owners ~$324K
The attack levied against the domain using insecure IoT devices cost their owners dearly in power and bandwidth.
Hackers are using Mirai-based botnets to DDoS the domain hardcoded into WannaCry in an attempt to reduce effectiveness of the kill-switch, revive the ransomware
Over the past year, two digital disasters have rocked the internet. The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off …
Hackers are using Mirai-based botnets to DDoS the domain hardcoded into WannaCry in an attempt to reduce effectiveness of the kill-switch, revive the ransomware
Over the past year, two digital disasters have rocked the internet. The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off …
Mirai-based botnet tried to hijack Deutsche Telekom, UK's TalkTalk and Post Office customer routers, disrupting internet access for over 1M customers
The Mirai worm also hit the broadband, internet and TV networks of 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers — Around 100,000 Post Office …
Mirai-based botnet tried to hijack Deutsche Telekom, UK's TalkTalk and Post Office customer routers, disrupting internet access for over 1M customers
The Mirai worm also hit the broadband, internet and TV networks of 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers — Around 100,000 Post Office …