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Abstract | ||
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The Mirai bomet, composed primarily of embedded and IoT devices, took the Internet by storm in late 2016 when it overwhelmed several high-profile targets with massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In this paper, we provide a seven-month retrospective analysis of Mirai's growth to a peak of 600k infections and a history of its DDoS victims. By combining a variety of measurement perspectives, we analyze how the bot-net emerged, what classes of devices were affected, and how Mirai variants evolved and competed for vulnerable hosts. Our measurements serve as a lens into the fragile ecosystem of IoT devices. We argue that Mirai may represent a sea change in the evolutionary development of botnets the simplicity through which devices were infected and its precipitous growth, demonstrate that novice malicious techniques can compromise enough low-end devices to threaten even some of the best-defended targets. To address this risk, we recommend technical and nontechnical interventions, as well as propose future research directions. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2017 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 26TH USENIX SECURITY SYMPOSIUM (USENIX SECURITY '17) | Internet privacy,Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Computer security,Botnet,Internet of Things,Compromise,The Internet |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 41 | 1.41 |
References | Authors | |
33 | 19 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manos Antonakakis | 1 | 702 | 36.70 |
| Tim April | 2 | 42 | 2.10 |
| Michael Bailey | 3 | 1335 | 78.22 |
| Matt Bernhard | 4 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Elie Bursztein | 5 | 787 | 47.53 |
| Jaime Cochran | 6 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Zakir Durumeric | 7 | 935 | 48.86 |
| J. Alex Halderman | 8 | 2301 | 149.67 |
| Luca Invernizzi | 9 | 275 | 14.27 |
| Michalis Kallitsis | 10 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Deepak Kumar | 11 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Chaz Lever | 12 | 86 | 3.64 |
| Zane Ma | 13 | 80 | 5.51 |
| Joshua Mason | 14 | 108 | 9.79 |
| Damian Menscher | 15 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Chad Seaman | 16 | 41 | 1.41 |
| Nick Sullivan | 17 | 50 | 4.36 |
| Kurt Thomas | 18 | 1189 | 56.78 |
| Yi Zhou | 19 | 230 | 32.97 |