Tag: Mirai malware
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The Katana Siege: How 30,000 Android TV Boxes Were Hijacked into a 150Gbps DDoS Army
The Katana botnet has usurped no fewer than thirty thousand Android-based television set-top boxes, transfiguring these economical apparatuses into a formidable staging ground for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bombardments. The vanguard at Nokia Deepfield ERT has chronicled a nascent wave of contagion wherein the malefactors necessitated neither software vulnerabilities nor labyrinthine instruments; a mere subscription to…
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InfectedSlurs Unleashed: New Mirai-Based Botnet Exploits Zero-Days
According to recent data from cybersecurity firm Akamai, researchers have uncovered a new botnet, based on the infamous Mirai malware, named “InfectedSlurs”. This malicious infrastructure employs two zero-day vulnerabilities, effortlessly infecting routers and digital video recorders accessible via the internet. The activity of “InfectedSlurs” was first observed in October 2023, though it is speculated that…