Prolific Mozi Botnet Deliberately Shut Down with Kill Switch

For several years, Mozi was among the most active botnets on the cyberthreat scene, exploiting flaws in hundreds of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices every year. In a report last year, IBM’s X-Force unit said it saw a 3,000% jumped in Mozi activity between 2019 and 2020, and a year later Mozi accounted..

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