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In October 2016, a malware tool named Mirai took down some of the biggest sites and services on the web, including Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, and Slack. The blackout affected most of the East Coast of the United States, and the size and scope of the outage alarmed the cybersecurity researchers and law enforcement agencies
Early in the morning on October 21, 2016, Scott Shapiro got out of bed, opened his Dell laptop to read the day’s news, and found that the internet was broken.Not his internet, though at first it struck Shapiro that way as he checked and double-checked his computer’s Wi-Fi connection and his router. The internet.This article
A Mirai-based DDoS (distributed denial of service) malware botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new payloads to target Linux-based routers and routers from D-Link, Zyxel, TP-Link, TOTOLINK, and others. Fortinet researchers report observing a peak in the exploitation rates around the first week of September, reaching tens of thousands of exploitation attempts against vulnerable devices. IZ1H9
The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an “aggressively updated arsenal of exploits.” It’s the first major update to the IZ1H9 Mirai variant in months and arrives bolstered with tools to break into devices from D-Link and Zyxel, among others. Researchers at FortiGuard Labs
