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Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty

December 13, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Akamai, anna-senpai, bitcoin, Breadcrumbs, click fraud, Dalton Norman, Daniel Kaye, exfocus, google, IoT botnet, Josiah White, justice department, Minecraft, Mirai, Ne'er-Do-Well News, OG_Richard_Stallman, ogexfocus, OVH, Paras Jha, Project Shield, Rutgers University DDoS

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:23:18 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks designed to knock Web sites and entire networks offline (including multiple major attacks against this site).

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Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?

October 23, 2017 admin Akamai, AVTECH, Checkpoint, D-Link, Depth Security, Doug Madory, Dyn, Foscam, GoAhead, google, IoTroop, Jake Reynolds, Linksys, Mirai, Netgear, Netlab 360, Other, OVH attack, Project Shield, Qbot, Reaper, vDos

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:42:42 +0000

It’s been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world’s top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by “Mirai,” a zombie malware strain that enslaved “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in large-scale online attacks. Now, experts are sounding the alarm about the emergence of what appears to be a far more powerful strain of IoT attack malware — variously named “Reaper” and “IoTroop” — that spreads via security holes in IoT software and hardware. And there are indications that over a million organizations may be affected already. Reaper isn’t attacking anyone yet. For the moment it is apparently content to gather gloom to itself from the darkest reaches of the Internet. But if history is any teacher, we are likely enjoying a period of false calm before another humbling IoT attack wave breaks.

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Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet

August 28, 2017 admin Akamai, Allison Nixon, Android malware, Chad Seaman, ddos, distributed denial-of-service attack, Flashpoint, google, Mirai, Other, Play store, WireX botnet

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000

A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.