Team Cymru and Abusix Partner on Mirai Botnet Cleanup
Summary
Team Cymru and Abusix announced a partnership combining Team Cymru botnet intelligence with Abusix reporting to help ISPs and hosting providers address Mirai infections. The companies say a one-week test processed more than 43 million feed records.
Key points
- Team Cymru is providing Abusix access to multiple threat-intelligence feeds, including its Botnet Analysis and Reporting Service (BARS).
- Abusix plans to distribute daily reports about IPs tied to Mirai activity to affected ISPs and hosting providers.
- The companies describe the service as a way to connect detection and reporting with operator cleanup and verification.
- In a one-week test, Abusix pulled more than 43 million records from Team Cymru feeds and compared them with its own observations.
- The partnership’s initial focus is Mirai; the companies say they aim to measure cleanup rates and expand to other botnet families.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Partnership to combine threat intelligence and abuse-reporting workflows, beginning with efforts to reduce Mirai infections.
- Impact
- Team Cymru provides threat intelligence feeds and detections of IPs tied to Mirai activity; Abusix distributes reports to affected ISPs and hosting providers. The partners aim to support verified cleanup and measure infection reduction. In one week of testing, Abusix processed more than 43 million records from Team Cymru’s feeds; the article does not report cleanup results.
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AbusixI’m excited to share in this blog that we’ve forged a new partnership with Abusix — a company that shares this same belief and is putting it into practice every day with their network operator partners.Team CymruAt Team Cymru, our mission has always been clear, though never easy: to save and improve lives by making the internet safer for everyone. We do this by building trusted partnerships with like-minded organizations,