Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector. A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a ...

Activity on a number of Dark Web hacker forums indicates that while people are downloading the Mirai malware source code, they need help setting it up. The availability of the Mirai malware source ...

Security researchers believe they have discovered a new version of the infamous IoT-powered Mirai botnet which was observed carrying out a mammoth 54-hour DDoS attack on a US university last month.

Earlier this morning, we reported on the troubling news that the source code for the Mirai IoT DDoS botnet is now out in the open. If you recall, Miari is the botnet that was able to flood ...

The Mirai botnet started making waves publicly during the fall of 2016 with a high-profile DDoS attack on the security site KrebsOnSecurity. The DDoS attack, which was at the time the largest on ...

A new Mirai botnet variant tracked as ‘V3G4’ targets 13 vulnerabilities in Linux-based servers and IoT devices to use in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. The malware spreads by ...

Sierra Wireless is warning customers to change their default access credentials on AirLink gateway products after discovering the wireless products are being compromised by Mirai malware. Mirai, a ...

Security experts are claiming that the notorious Mirai botnet has now fractured into smaller competing entities after the attempts of one offshoot to DDoS the websites of both presidential candidates ...

The malware behind last month’s massive internet disruption in the U.S. is targeting Liberia with financially devastating results. This week, a botnet powered by the Mirai malware has been launching ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A massive internet attack that paralyzed Twitter, Netflix and other services is being blamed on a specific kind of malware designed to harness the power of ordinary consumer devices.