IT researchers from Fortinet are monitoring an IoT botnet based on "Mirai" and called "Gayfemboy". It hides well.

A new variant of Mirai malware is targeting a recently uncovered critical vulnerability in network-attached storage devices and exploiting them to rope the machines into an Internet of Things botnet.

Several variants of the Gafgyt Linux-based botnet malware family have incorporated code from the infamous Mirai botnet, researchers have discovered.

Open-source versions of Mirai give any random script kiddie the potential to whip up a massive robot army from unsecured IoT devices and then cause internet outages at will.

The threat actors behind the campaign make use of this capability to direct affected routers to download a MooBot malware payload. MooBot is a variant of the Mirai botnet malware that was first ...

Mirai activity has nearly doubled between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. The infamous Mirai internet of things botnet is spiking in growth while changing up its tactics ...

Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets backed by Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 hijacked devices.

This botnet snares your smart devices to perform DDoS attacks with a little help from Mirai Chalubo is a new botnet which is being used in attacks against servers and IoT devices.

Bot-herding software called Persirai, which incorporates pieces of the Mirai botnet code, can commandeer significant chunks of a known 150,000 IP cameras that are vulnerable to Mirai and use them ...

Attackers exploiting nearly decade-old D-Link router vulnerabilities drove a sharp rise in botnet activity in 2024 through variants of the Mirai and Kaiten taking advantage of unpatched devices. The ...

Three men, Paras Jha, 21, Josiah White, 20, and Dalton Norman, 21, entered guilty pleas for their roles in creating and deploying the Mirai botnet last year. The men apparently ran their own DDoS ...