Russian cybersecurity firm Rostelecom-Solar says it has stopped what it believes to be the Mris botnet from taking over 45,000 new devices. The company says it stopped the attack with the help of the Solar JSOC CERT Center for Early Detection of Cyber Threats and in conjunction with “specialists of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents” The company’s president, Mikhail Oseevsky, says the majority of the 19 attacks lasted several minutes but the longest, observed on Saturday, lasted for 5 hours and 32 minutes.”]