Mirai botnet

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2022
Cloudflare blocked a 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack aimed at the Minecraft server

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. The Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3 states that multi-terabit massive DDoS attacks have become increasingly frequent. In Q3, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Cloudflare mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date. Volumetric DDoS attacks are designed to overwhelm internal network capacity and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2019
New Mirai botnet hides C2 server in the Tor network to prevent takedowns

Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that has command and control server in the Tor network to make takedowns hard. Experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that uses a Command and Control hidden in the Tor Network, a choice that protects the anonymity of the operators and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2017
The Mirai botnet is back and includes a Bitcoin Mining component

Experts at IBM X-Force security firm warn of a new Mirai Botnet implementing Bitcoin crypto-currency mining capabilities. The Mirai botnet was first spotted in august 2016 by the security researcher MalwareMustDie, it was specifically designed to compromise vulnerable or poorly protected IoT. Once Mirai malware compromises an IoT device it recruits it into a botnet primarily used for […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2017
Imperva observed a new variant of the Mirai botnet unleashes 54-Hour DDoS attack

According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour DDoS attack. According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The new variant of the Mirai […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2016
Mirai botnet leverages STOMP Protocol to power DDoS attacks

Cyber criminals are exploiting the capability of the Mirai botnet to use the STOMP Protocol to launch massive DDoS attacks. The Linux Mirai IoT malware is one of the most popular cyber threats in the moment, its botnet was used to power the massive attacks against the Dyn DNS service, OVH, Brian Krebs’ blog, and likely […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2016
Shadows Kill Mirai Botnet caused an Internet outage in Liberia, what is the next one?

Mirai botnet was used to power a massive DDoS attack against Liberia causing the Internet outage in the entire country with financially devastating results. Mirai is the malware that a few weeks ago caused a massive Internet outage in the US. Mirai was first spotted this summer by the security expert MalwareMustDie, now media reported the use of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2016
Inside the DDoS attacks powered by large IoT botnets

Cloudflare firm has published a report that analyzes two recent attacks that were powered by large IoT botnets based on the Mirai Threat. The IoT botnets represent one the most dangerous threats in the security landscape, recently we have assisted to cyber attacks powered by these infrastructures that reached magnitude never seen before. The recent DDoS attacks powered […]