Hackers targeted Clinton and Trump websites using Mirai botnet before Election Day

Hackers tried to cripple the campaign websites of US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump this week employing the same Mirai malware used to take down a part of the internet in the US and Europe in October. According to security firm Flashpoint, four 30-second HTTP Layer 7 attacks were detected between 6-7 November. However, they note that neither site experienced any outages because the Mirai botnet is getting weaker.

“Flashpoint assesses with moderate confidence that the Mirai botnet has been fractured into smaller, competing botnets due to the release of its source code, which has led to the proliferation of actors exploiting the botnet’s devices,” the firm said. Researchers said they do not believe that the attacks were the work of nation-state actors, but were likely the work of “unsophisticated actors” using the Mirai IoT botnet to target the candidates’ sites. For the full article click here 

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