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Mirai is the hydra of IoT security: too many heads to cut off

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Mar

2017

Efforts to stop Mirai, a malware found infecting thousands of IoT devices, have become a game of whack-a-mole, with differing opinions over whether hackers or the security community are making any headway. The malicious code became publicly available in late September. Since then, it’s been blamed for enslaving IoT devices such as DVRs and internet […]

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New(ish) Mirai Spreader Poses New Risks

22

Feb

2017

A cross-platform win32-based Mirai spreader and botnet is in the wild and previously discussed publicly. However, there is much information confused together, as if an entirely new IoT bot is spreading to and from Windows devices. This is not the case. Instead, an accurate assessment is that a previously active Windows botnet is spreading a […]

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Windows Trojan hacks into embedded devices to install Mirai

10

Feb

2017

Attackers have started to use Windows and Android malware to hack into embedded devices, dispelling the widely held belief that if such devices are not directly exposed to the Internet they’re less vulnerable. Researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web have recently come across a Windows Trojan program that was designed to gain access to […]

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