Mirai Botnet In Lebanon
Hasan k. Idriss · 2020
The growth of the Internet of things (IoT) in the market of smart home and surveillance security raises the flag of new security risks, after the presence of new malware targeting IoT devices for creating a botnet. Mirai is one of the famous malware that used IoT bots to perform the most massive DDoS attack in botnet history. This paper will discuss the Mirai malware’s leading events and provide a brief of the famous variants created based on the Mirai source code. Finally, propose a detection and mitigation method to protect the system, taking into consideration the Lebanese industry and offering a methodology to make it Mirai Botnet resilient.