DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets

2017/01/01 by Constantinos Kolias, Georgios Kambourakis, Angelos Stavrou +1 · 41 citations
Computer Science · #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting

paper · doi:10.1109/mc.2017.201

Abstract

The Mirai botnet and its variants and imitators are a wake-up call to the industry to better secure Internet of Things devices or risk exposing the Internet infrastructure to increasingly disruptive distributed denial-of-service attacks.

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