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, briefed the Russian news agency Tass at the Central Election Commissions information center, saying the company has stopped 19 distributed denial-of-service attacks.”]
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