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Experts warn of new campaigns leveraging Mirai and Gafgyt variants


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July 23, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

Security experts are warning of an intensification of attacks powered by two notorious IoT botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt.

 
Security experts are warning of a new wave of attacks powered by two botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt.
 
Since the code of the infamous Mirai botnet was leaked online many variants emerged in the threat landscape. Satori, Masuta, Wicked Mirai, JenX, Omni, and the OMG botnet are just the last variants appeared online in 2018.
 
The Gafgyt botnet, also known as Bashlite and Lizkebab, first appeared in the wild in 2014 had its source code was leaked in early 2015.
 
In September 2016, a joint research conducted by Level 3 Communications and Flashpoint allowed the identification of a million devices infected by the BASHLITE malware.
 
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