Cyber criminals are exploiting the capability of the Mirai botnet to use the STOMP Protocol to launch massive DDoS attacks. The Linux Mirai IoT malware is one of the most popular cyber threats in the moment. Experts from FlashPoint spotted more than 500,000 vulnerable devices in the wild. The countries with the highest number of vulnerable devices are Vietnam (80,000), Brazil (62,000) and Turkey (40,000). Attackers can leverage on a botnet composed of over 100,000 devices that is able to shut down target networks with a 510Gbps burst uplink.”]
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