Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

BASHLITE Malware leverages ShellShock Bug to Hijack Devices Running BusyBox

Cyber criminals are using new malware variants by exploiting GNU Bash vulnerability referred to as ShellShock CVE-2014-6271 in order to infect embedded devices running BusyBox software, according to a researcher. A new variant of "Bashlite" malware targeting devices running BusyBox software was...