Security experts from Fortinet have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet dubbed Wicked Mirai, it includes new exploits and spread a new bot. The name Wicked Mirai comes from the strings in the code, the experts discovered that this new variant includes at least three new exploits compared to the original one. Mirai was first spotted in 2016 by the experts at MalwareMustDie, at the time it was used to power massive DDoS attacks in the wild.”]
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