GORILLABOT GOES APE WITH 300K CYBERATTACKS WORLDWIDE

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A new Mirai variant called GorillaBot launched 300,000 DDoS attacks last month, affecting 20,000 organizations worldwide. It employs 19 attack methods, primarily UDP and TCP ACK Bypass floods. The botnet, which supports multiple architectures, targeted organizations in 113 countries, with China and the US most affected.