New variations of Mirai and the Gafgyt botnet are harnessing new vulnerabilities to compromise IoT devices, including the security flaw which caused the 2017 Equifax data breach. More security news Worries arise about security of new WebAuthn protocol This malware disguises itself as bank security to raid your account Popular VPNs contain code execution security flaws, despite patches Google’s campus door security blasted wide open by its own engineer On Sunday, researchers from the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 team said in a blog post that new variants of the botnets have been upgraded with a slew of exploits designed to take advantage of multiple vulnerabilities.

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