Akamai SIRT has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited to spread a Mirai variant in the wild. Read on for details and mitigation.
The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story | WIRED
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.
Mirai Botnet's New Wave: hailBot,kiraiBot, catDDoS, and Their Fierce Onslaught - NSFOCUS, Inc., a global network and cyber security leader, protects enterprises and carriers from advanced cyber attacks.
Several new Mirai variant families were widely deployed in September 2023, among which hailBot, kiraiBot and catDDoS are the most active.
Tomcat Under Attack: Exploring Mirai Malware and Beyond
Tomcat Vulnerability explore some of the techniques used by the Mirai botnet to exploit a single attack directed at one of our Apache Tomcat honeypots.
Old Wine in the New Bottle: Mirai Variant Targets Multiple IoT Devices
We analyze Mirai variant IZ1H9, which targets IoT devices. Our overview includes campaigns observed, botnet configuration and vulnerabilities exploited.