"New Mirai Variant Carries Out 54-Hour DDoS Attacks"

A new variant of the Mirai malware recently targeted a U.S. college and launched a 54-hour long DDoS attack. This attack follows the original Mirai malware that launched attacks in October 2016. This new variant of Mirai imitates the same tactics carried out by the original by scanning the network for vulnerable connected devices then adding these devices to botnets, which are used to perform DDoS attacks. The only difference is the increased number of user agents that can be alternated to avoid mitigation attempts. This article further discusses the similarities between this variant and the original as well as the devices that can be leveraged in this attack. 

Threatpost reports "New Mirai Variant Carries Out 54-Hour DDoS Attacks"