DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets
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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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Attacks such as Hajime, IoT Reaper, BrickerBot, or Mirai exploit the vulnerabilities of IoT devices.
“Few attacks such as Hajime, IoT Reaper, BrickerBot, or Mirai [26] exploit the vulnerabilities of IoT devices.”
From IoT cyber risk: A holistic analysis of cyber risk assessment frameworks, risk vectors, and risk ranking process (2020) · cites this paper as [26]
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- Authors
- Kolias, C., Kambourakis, G., Stavrou, A., & Voas, J.
- Affiliations
- George Mason University (US)
- University of the Aegean (GR)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
- Venue
- Computer
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 80-84
- ISSN
- 0018-9162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2733765803
- Cited by
- 1,892
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 105 · 2025: 145 · 2024: 172 · 2023: 196 · 2022: 261 · 2021: 303 · 2020: 306 · 2019: 258 · 2018: 132 · 2017: 14
- FWCI
- 129.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computer (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Internet of Things and AI
- Keywords
- Mirai botnet, Internet of Things security, DDoS attacks, botnets, IoT vulnerabilities
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