Re: Mirai botnet is back — now as "Meris"

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

No rest for the wired 🙂
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+mel=beckman.org () nanog org> on behalf of Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera () gmail com>
Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 10:07 AM
To: Brandon Svec <bsvec () teamonesolutions com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Mirai botnet is back — now as "Meris"

Peace,

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 7:57 PM Brandon Svec via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
> Oof.  I wonder if there is any connection to their DDNS service outage a couple days ago?
> https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=178256

No, hardly any.  That one seems to be just a DNS abuse
reporting/delegation issue.

...well, by some wild extension one could imagine that the botnet
operator reported some fake issue just to have the vendor's
infrastructure blocked.  Therefore, IoT vendors that don't enforce
security updates on the devices they sell, should expect criminals to
go to great lengths to keep their update servers and the
infrastructure down once some RCE vulnerabilities are found.  But
that's a wild extension.

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Töma