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How “Peter Parker’s” Mirai Variant Took Down 900,000 Routers
By Craig Young on Wed, 11/30/2016
What happens when service providers issue routers with remotely exploitable flaws? This weekend, we saw a glimpse of what is possible when attackers attempted to load Mirai-based malware on routers through a vulnerability in an exposed remote management protocol. Although the attackers probably failed in their ultimate goal of creating a large...