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Smart device malware behind record DDoS attack is now available to all hackers

October 4, 2016   Security News

The Mirai trojan enslaved over 380,000 IoT devices, its creator claims.

Credit: Stephen Lawson
The source code for a trojan program that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks has been published online, paving the way for more such botnets.

The code for the trojan, which its creator calls Mirai, was released Friday on an English-language hackers’ forum, cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs reported over the weekend. Krebs’ website was the target of a record DDoS attack two weeks ago that was launched from the Mirai botnet.

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