Tag: Mirai
Is IoT’s dubious security past coming back to haunt it?
Jan van Vliet, VP and GM EMEA at Digital Guardian, examines the link between the Internet of Things’ (IoT) poor security track record and...
Botnet attack on one website costs IoT device owners $300k
A University of California, Berkeley Report reveals that the cost of malware- and botnet-affected devices could run into millions of dollars for their owners.
A...
OMG! Mirai malware variant turns IoT devices into proxy servers
NEWSBYTE: Researchers discover that IoT devices are being used to anonymise hackers
Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that turns...
Satori malware code made public by hackers
Researchers warn that now that it has been made public, the Satori malware code could be used in new botnets.
Code used in the Satori malware (a varient of...
Three plead guilty in US to developing Mirai botnet
Hackers go up before US federal court charged with creating Mirai botnet used in massive DDoS attacks.
Three men have pleaded guilty to creating the...
Andromeda IoT botnet dismantled by international cyber taskforce
As the Andromeda botnet gets dismantled, another steps forward to take over the job of infecting IoT devices.
Law enforcement agencies around the world have...
Malware makes the Internet a “torture chamber” for DVR devices
SANS Technology Institute researcher shows that a DVR with default settings can be compromised within minutes of going online.
Despite the Mirai botnet bringing into...
Most IoT hacks originate in Asia, honeypot data reveals
Most IoT attacks originate in Asia and seek to compromise specific types of unsecured IoT devices, such as video cameras, according to data collected...
Malwar! Hajime IoT botnet fights back against Mirai
A new malware worm known as Hajime has infected as many as 10,000 IoT devices, but has so far caused no damage.
Discovered by security...
Mirai malware repurposed to mine Bitcoins using slave IoT devices
Criminals have added code to the Mirai malware that targets IoT devices to mine Bitcoins.
IT security researchers have discovered a module added to the...
Amnesia malware turns DVRs into botnet slaves
IT security researchers have uncovered a new strain of malware that targets digital video recorders (DVRs), turning them into botnet slaves.
According to a blog...
Radware discovers Brickerbot, which makes DOS attacks permanent
A new threat is targeting insecure IoT devices, but rather than hijack them for use in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Brickerbot instead...