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78% of Malware Activity in 2018 Driven by IoT Botnets, NOKIA Finds

The most noteworthy malicious activity came from IoT botnets leveraging Mirais source code (35%) Once it was made available online in October 2016, Mirai malware rapidly evolved into more advanced strains, like Hajime and Satori. Hajime is a worm that has turned out far more advanced than Mirai, communicated through a peer-to-peer network and focused more on corrupting as many devices as possible rather than launching DDoS attacks. Crypto-coin mining will continue its upward trend in years to come, says Nokia Threat Intelligence Lab research team.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/78-malware-activity-2018-driven-iot-botnets-nokia-finds/

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