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Security researchers from Akamai have caught a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet targetingbusiness phonedevices built by Mitel.

Aquabot allows its operators to run Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

DDoS Attack

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The best way to defend against Aquabot and other Mirai variants is to keep the endpoints updated.

Mirai and its variants continue to wreak havoc across cyberspace.