Mirai-based Medusa Botnet Is Back with Ransomware Capabilities

A new variant of the Mirai-based Medusa DDoS (distributed denial of service) botnet has been discovered in the wild, equipped with a ransomware module and a Telnet brute-forcer. The Medusa malware (not to be confused with the Android malware with the same name) has been for sale on dark web marketplaces since 2015, and in 2017 […]

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