Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

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 ...

US officials unveiled criminal charges Wednesday against a former university student and two others in the Mirai botnet attacks which shut down parts of the internet in several countries starting in ...

Juniper Networks has warned customers of Mirai malware attacks scanning the Internet for Session Smart routers using default credentials. As the networking infrastructure company explained, the ...

A newly identified malware campaign has been observed exploiting a command injection flaw in digital video recorder (DVR) devices to deploy a Mirai-based botnet, according to analysis by FortiGuard ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

Popular for monitoring Docker containers, Wazuh is being exploited by two Mirai botnet variants — one of which aligns closely with researchers’ previously released proof-of-concept attack against the ...

Microsoft mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from Aisuru botnet Aisuru, a Mirai-class IoT botnet, controls 300,000+ compromised devices Microsoft warns DDoS attacks will grow as IoT and ...

A series of known and powerful botnets are ramping up attacks against Web-exposed assets such as PHP servers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and cloud gateways to gain control over network ...