New Torii Botnet uncovered, more sophisticated than Mirai | Avastwritten by Jakub Kroustek, Vladislav Iliushin, Anna Shirokova, Jan Neduchal and Martin Hron
Disclaimer: Analysis of the server content and samples was done on Thursday, September 20th. Follow the Avast Blog for further updates.
Introduction
2018 has been a year where the Mirai and QBot variants just keep coming. Any script kiddie now can use the Mirai source code, make a few changes, give it a new Japanese-sounding name, and then release it as a new botnet.
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New Torii Botnet uncovered, more sophisticated than Mirai | Avast
