Category Archives: Mirai botnet

Internet of Threats: IoT Botnets Drive Surge in Network Attacks

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As Internet of things (IoT) devices in homes, industrial environments, transportation networks and elsewhere continue to proliferate, so does the attack surface for malicious IoT network attackers. IoT attack activity in 2020 dramatically surpassed the combined volume of IoT activity observed by IBM Security X-Force in 2019. Turning our attention to the factors behind this […]

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Leveraging Open Source Can be Powerful for Cybersecurity

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Security vendors and end users have access to the same technology and resources, if not more, than the threat actor community. However, the area where cybersecurity falls short as an industry is teamwork. Vendors and end users rarely talk to each other as a broader force. Thus, while innovation may happen for individual products, that […]

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Report: Most Popular Home Routers Have ‘Critical’ Flaws

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Common devices from Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and others contain serious security vulnerabilities that even updates don’t fix. Continue reading Report: Most Popular Home Routers Have ‘Critical’ Flaws→

Report: Most Popular Home Routers Have ‘Critical’ Flaws

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Common devices from Netgear, Linksys, D-Link and others contain serious security vulnerabilities that even updates don’t fix. Continue reading Report: Most Popular Home Routers Have ‘Critical’ Flaws→

Mukashi: A New Mirai IoT Botnet Variant Targeting Zyxel NAS Devices

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A new version of the infamous Mirai botnet is exploiting a recently uncovered critical vulnerability in network-attached storage (NAS) devices in an attempt to remotely infect and control vulnerable machines.

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Securing the IoT: A Race Against Time

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 A huge cybersecurity opportunity presents itself while glaring vulnerabilities in IoT devices sit like a ticking time bomb just waiting to be exploited The year was 1988. Robert Morris would immortalize himself in the annals of internet history by di… Continue reading Securing the IoT: A Race Against Time→

Mirai Variant Adds Dozen New Exploits to Target Enterprise IoT Devices

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Security researchers have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai Internet of Things botnet, this time targeting embedded devices intended for use within business environments in an attempt to gain control over larger bandwidth to carry out devas… Continue reading Mirai Variant Adds Dozen New Exploits to Target Enterprise IoT Devices→

How an IoT Botnet Could Breach the Power Grid and Cause Widespread Blackouts

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A group of researchers from Princeton revealed that, through an attack dubbed MadIoT, threat actors could leverage an IoT botnet to compromise the power grid and cause widespread blackouts.

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New Versions of the Mirai Botnet Detected: Work Attributed to Independent Hackers

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Two years following the worldwide Mirai botnet attack criminals worldwide are utilizing it for various malicious uses. Recently security experts discovered that several new versions of it have been developed. An in-depth look shows that the new release… Continue reading New Versions of the Mirai Botnet Detected: Work Attributed to Independent Hackers→