Mirai Botnet Archives - Cyber Security Minute

Mirai Botnet Launched 2.5 Tbps DDoS Attack Against Minecraft Server

Issued by: Security Week

The attack was aimed at a Minecraft server named Wynncraft and it involved UDP and TCP floods. However, the web security firm said it mitigated the attack, preventing it from causing any disruption to the game. While this may have been a record-breaking attack for Cloudflare, Microsoft last year observed an attack that peaked at…

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-22965: Analyzing the Exploitation of Spring4Shell Vulnerability in Weaponizing and Executing the Mirai Botnet Malware

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Trend Micro Threat Research observed active exploitation of the Spring4Shell vulnerability assigned as CVE-2022-22965, which allows malicious actors to weaponize and execute the Mirai botnet malware. The exploitation allows threat actors to download the Mirai sample to the “/tmp” folder and execute them after permission change using “chmod”. We began seeing malicious activities at the…

Malware & Threats

Mirai Botnet Starts Exploiting OMIGOD Flaw as Microsoft Issues More Guidance

Issued by: Security Week

Microsoft’s guidance was published just as researchers noticed that one of the vulnerabilities is already being exploited in the wild. It appears that the Mirai botnet is attempting to compromise vulnerable systems and that it also closes port 5896 (OMI SSL port) to keep other attackers out. An open-source Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) implementation, OMI…

Network Security

How 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

With the recent news that South Korea has rolled out the world’s first 5G network, it’s clear that we’re on the precipice of the wireless technology’s widespread launch. Offering speeds anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than 4G long-term evolution (LTE), the next generation of wireless networks will also support higher capacities of wireless…

Vulnerabilities

5 Unsettling cyberthreats

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Cyberthreats are typically boring, repetitive, and require a reasonably predictable remediation process. A SQL injection is a SQL injection, no matter who’s trying it. But what about the outliers? What about threats that impact you, but you can’t remediate, or establish a policy to cover? Here are 5 cyberthreats that if you’re not frightened by,…