mirai

The problem has been known for 5 years, but experts began to sound the alarm only now. Akamai has detected a new wave of attacks on outdated security cameras from the Taiwanese manufacturer AVTECH. Attackers exploit a critical vulnerability in the AVM1203 model to spread malware from the Mirai...

Last weekend, the author of the Mirai Trojan, known under the pseudonym Anna-senpai, published the source codes of his brainchild in the public domain on the Hack Forums. The source code has already been uploaded by researchers to GitHub (1 and 2). In fact, Mirai works simply: it scans the...