Kaiji, a new botnet campaign, created from scratch rather than resting on the shoulders of those that went before it, is infecting Linux-based servers and IoT devices with the intention of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Kaiji,named by researcher MalwareMustDie after one of the function names they observed in the malware’s code (but also the name of a series of Japanese manga comic books), is believed to have originated in China, but is now spreading slowly around the world infecting new devices.

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