Topic

Malware

A collection of 3 issues

Mirai Botnet in 2021

Following my post [https://blog.prakharshukla.com/honeypot-running-off-a-pi-zero-w-d86a03edc63a] about the HoneyPot, and this port is about one of those attacks. While Mirai is no more the hot news, the most number attacks, albeit I hope mostly useless, start from this simple bot. In fact, this is the list of unique

HoneyPot running off a Pi Zero W

This tiny guy has seen more attacks than Spartans!I had a Pi Zero W lying around my stuff. My original aim was to run a camera on top of it, but it seemed that Pi 3 handled the video processing much better than this tiny guy, so it was

Exploring Old Bitcoin Mining Malware

> This is a repost from my blog at Medium. I was going through some old files when I found a malware I’d decoded while fixing someone’s PC. Back in 2013, someone had asked me to get rid of a virus they had encountered. I formatted the hard drive,