By Ionut Arghire on March 29, 2017
New Variant of Infamous IoT Botnet Launches Attack Against Network of U.S. College
A newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was responsible for powering a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, Imperva researchers reveal.
Mirai was one of the most discussed Internet of Things (IoT) botnets during the second half of last year, after it was used in two large attacks against Brian Krebs’ blog and DNS provider Dyn. In October, the Trojan’s source code leaked online and new variants emerged soon after.
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New Mirai Variant Unleashes 54-Hour DDoS Attack
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