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Mirai Botnet Launches Fresh 54-Hour DDoS Attack
A new variant of the Mirai botnet has launched a fresh distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted over three days. Mirai – run by a type of malware able to infect and take control of IoT devices – was used in October 2016 to conduct one of the…
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Mirai Worm Author Anna-Sempai Unmasked
The Mirai botnet, which takes control of unsecured IoT devices to launch massive DDoS attacks, wreaked havoc last year after its developer, known only as Anna-Sempai, released the source code for the malicious software. One victim of Mirai was Krebs on Security, the blog run by security researcher Brian Krebs.…
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Mirai Botnet Takes Down One Million German Routers
Mirai — the worm responsible for infecting tens of millions of IoT devices which were used as a botnet to DDoS managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn in October — has evolved, and its new form has been used to take down nearly one million internet routers in Germany. KrebsOnSecurity reports that the…
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Angry Gamer Triggered Second Biggest DDoS of 2016
Last month, managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, taking out popular sites, such as Twitter, reddit, and Spotify in the process. While many, including cyberloon John McAfee, pointed the finger at the likes of North Korea and China for initiating…
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Toyota Display Mirai Based Car With Satellite Connectivity
Connected vehicles are a growing force in the automotive market, but the cars often rely on being paired a compatible smartphone to be able to communicate. In order to address these limitations on a car’s access to data, Toyota has made the bold move of embedding a flat-panel satellite antenna…
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