The Mirai Botnet Attack: An Attack that Changed IoT Security Landscape

Aqeel Ahmed
4 min readApr 9, 2024

In the realm of cybersecurity, few events have had as significant an impact as the Mirai Botnet attack. This tutorial aims to provide a detailed overview of the Mirai Botnet attack, from its inception to its consequences, exploring the technical aspects, ramifications, and lessons learned from this infamous incident.

I worked on IoT BotNet attack classification as my masters thesis project. I will soon be sharing the finding of my thesis with machine learning models and the dataset used. STAY IN TOUCH

--

--

Aqeel Ahmed

PhD (DL & IoT Security). My expertise include Signal Processing, ML, DL, and Cybersecurity. Follow me for easy to understand tutorials in these areas