New AI-Powered Mirai Botnet Unleashes Unstoppable Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

The report outlines an active Mirai botnet campaign exploiting web vulnerabilities to compromise over 1,200 sites across 780 customer accounts, delivering malicious bash scripts and ELF binaries (200+ malicious URLs, 230+ samples) to recruit IoT and other devices for large-scale DDoS, extortion, and DDoS-for-hire operations; it details scanning, brute-force, loader, and C2 workflows and warns of AI-driven polymorphic threats.