The takedown represents the largest United States-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure leveraged by cybercriminals to commit cyber-enabled criminal activity.

I can understand Apache and MySQL bogging a server down, but running simple perl scripts and searching directories for files?!<BR><BR>Does it have to do with the ext3 filesystem?

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers.