Mirai IoT Worm Can be Adapted to Survive

Following the recent news that the Mirai IoT worm could be adapted to survive device robots , enabling hackers to build bigger and more disruptive botnets, Cesare Garlati, chief security strategist at prpl Foundation believes building a root of trust within the hardware is the only defence.

He said: "The Mirai worm that could be adapted to survive device reboots is a very harrowing example of why creating device hardware with a built in root of trust is so vital to the security of IoT.

"In essence, there is no device security if there is no signed/secure boot and this requires a resilient root of trust forged in the hardware as described in prpl’s Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Embedded Computing ."