Ny variant av Mirai gäckar Linux-servrar
The Register rapporterar att den skadliga koden Mirai – som använts för att skapa så kallade botnät i några av historiens största överbelastningsattacker – nu har kommit i en ny variant med siktet inställt på Linux-servrar. Tidigare har Mirai primärt riktat in sig på enheter i det segment som brukar kallas ”sakernas internet”, till exempel kameror och diverse sensorer i smarta hem. Men nu har utvecklarna valt att gå på servrar genom att exploatera säkerhetsbrister i big data-plattformen Hadoop, skriver svenska Techworld.
Mirai (malware)
Wikipedia (en)
Mirai (Japanese for "the future", 未来) is a 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. The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 by MalwareMustDie, a whitehat malware research group, and has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, including an attack on 20 September 2016 on computer security journalist Brian Krebs' web site, an attack on French web host OVH, and the October 2016 Dyn cyberattack. According to a chat log between Anna-senpai and Robert Coelho, Mirai was named after the 2011 TV anime series Mirai Nikki.The source code for Mirai was published on Hack Forums as open-source. Since the source code was published, the techniques have been adapted in other malware projects.
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