Mirai Malware Evolves into Hundreds of Variants Driving Botnet Growth

Multiple high-impact cybersecurity developments: The Mirai family continues to fragment into hundreds of variants (e.g., Aisuru, KimWolf), expanding IoT botnet risk; the US FCC added foreign-made consumer routers to a restricted Covered List over national-security concerns; a new GitHub-targeted phishing campaign (fake OpenClaw token giveaway) is draining crypto wallets; and a supply-chain credential-theft campaign by TeamPCP compromised Trivy, Checkmarx and LiteLLM to steal cloud credentials, tokens and wallet data. Several large organizations (HackerOne, Mazda, Infinite Campus, Dutch Govt.)披