Understanding the Mirai Botnet
summary
Seven-month measurement combines a network telescope, active scans, telnet honeypots and VirusTotal binaries with passive DNS and C2 monitoring to show Mirai reaches a peak ~600k infections but stabilizes at 200–300k steady-state, spreads via default telnet creds then a short-lived CWMP exploit, exposes 333 C2 clusters and 48 password dictionaries, predominantly targets cameras/DVRs, launches a 623 Gbps attack on Krebs using TCP-state and app-level vectors rather than amplifiers.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Mirai
- 1:47Botnet lifecycle
- 2:49Methodology and data sources
- 4:17Prevalence and composition
- 10:08Infrastructure and operators
- 13:39DDoS tactics and targets
- 18:03Lessons for IOT security
- 21:27Q&A session
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