Date: June 26, 2024

Mirai

Yesterday, I spent hours reading about Mirai botnet and it's creator, Paras Jha.

You can check out this blog for more info: mirai

I also looked at the source code and the Hackforums thread where it was leaked.
Spent an hour reading the source but I only understood some of it.

Here's the code for setting up common passwords: code

And Today

I randomly tried logging into my router. Guess what!!


username: admin
password: admin

And it worked on the first try!!

It made my bad day much better; I had a good laugh!

Edit: I'm not sure if that's allowed.