A newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The DDoS attack peaked at around 37,000 RPS, the experts highlighted that this is the highest of any Mirai malware previously detected. The attack started on February 28 and ran for 54 hours straight, ran for an average of 30,000 hours straight. In total, the attack generated over 2.8 billion requests. Experts speculate the IoT devices might have been compromised by exploiting known vulnerabilities that the botnet exploited via open telnet (23) ports and TR-069 (7547) ports.”]
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