Researchers said a Mirai botnet variant, possibly linked to the IoTroop or Reaper botnet, was leveraged in attacks against the financial sector. A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a ...

IoT malware made easy-peasy is expected to rise, following the discovery of a new Mirai-variant IoT botnet that appears tied to IoTroop/Reaper, allowing attackers to easily change malicious code on ...

A botnet made up of hijacked internet-connected televisions and web cameras has a new target, security researchers have found. Three financial sector institutions have become the latest victims of ...

Security experts are warning that an IoT botnet has been targeting the financial services sector with DDoS attacks, in what they believe is the first such campaign since Mirai. The botnet, which has ...

Criminals, like carpenters, hate to see a good tool go unused. It's no surprise, then, that the Mirai botnet has been in action once again, this time in concert with other botnets and with targets in ...

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. Phil Goldstein is a ...