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Mirai (from the Japanese word for "future", 未来) is malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled bots that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. It primarily targets online consumer devices such as IP cameras and home routers. [1] The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 [2] by ...
Malware. Hajime is a worm according to sources which have placed research on the subject. [8] It appears to have been discovered as early as October 2016. [9] Later in April 2017, Hajime generated large media coverage as it appeared to be in competition with Mirai. [10] This led to a number of reports which compared and noted that it appeared ...
A botnet is a logical collection of Internet -connected devices, such as computers, smartphones or Internet of things (IoT) devices whose security have been breached and control ceded to a third party. Each compromised device, known as a "bot," is created when a device is penetrated by software from a malware (malicious software) distribution.
It infected millions of computers worldwide within a few hours of its release. It is considered to be one of the most damaging worms ever. It originated in the Philippines; made by an AMA Computer College student Onel de Guzman for his thesis. September: Computer hacker Jonathan James became the first juvenile to serve jail time for hacking.
Carna botnet. World map of 24-hour relative average utilization of IPv4 addresses observed using ICMP ping requests by Carna botnet, June - October 2012. The Carna botnet was a botnet of 420,000 devices created by an anonymous hacker to measure the extent of the Internet in what the creator called the “ Internet Census of 2012 ”.
The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, [1] is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. [2] [3] Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP addresses or up to 1 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly (mariposa in Spanish) Bot", making it one of the largest known botnets.
Srizbi botnet. Srizbi BotNet is considered one of the world's largest botnets, and responsible for sending out more than half of all the spam being sent by all the major botnets combined. [1][2][3] The botnets consist of computers infected by the Srizbi trojan, which sent spam on command. Srizbi suffered a massive setback in November 2008 when ...
Lethic botnet. The Lethic Botnet (initially discovered around 2008) is a botnet consisting of an estimated 210 000 - 310 000 individual machines [1] which are mainly involved in pharmaceutical and replica spam. The botnet was most prevalent in Europe, India and Southeast Asia. [2]