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 ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers discovered a variant of Mirai with an offensive name It targets industrial routers and smart home devices ...

Industrial control systems and critical infrastructure operators are being warned about a campaign leveraging a known zero-day vulnerability in remote monitoring cameras to spread Mirai cryptominer ...

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 ...

According to researchers, the botnet has been attacking hundreds of targets every day since its discovery in February 2024. The number of daily active bot IPs is 15,000, most of which are located in ...