'OMG': New Mirai Variant Converts IoT Devices into Proxy Servers

itman · Feb 23, 2018

The new malware also can turn bots into DDoS attack machines, says Fortinet.

Numerous versions of the Mirai IoT bot malware have surfaced since the creators of the original code - one of whom is a former Rutgers University student - first released it in Sept. 2016.

The latest iteration of Mirai is dubbed "OMG," and turns infected IoT devices into proxy servers while also retaining the original malware's DDoS attack capabilities.

Security researchers at Fortinet recently encountered the new Mirai variant, and say the modification likely provides the malware authors another way to generate money from the code. Satori, another IoT bot malware based on Mirai code, was discovered in December and is designed for mining cryptocurrencies rather than launching DDoS attacks.
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