From gbhackers.com
Researchers discovered new Mirai Malware samples with the updated functions, in which malware authors implemented its Command & Control server in the Tor Network for anonymity.
Mirai is one of the notorious IoT Malware that targets the IoT devices such as IP cameras and DVRs to take control of those devices by taking advantages of open ports and default credentials, exploiting disclosed and non-disclosed vulnerabilities and add them in botnet network.
Threat actors placed a command and control (C&C) server in the Tor network that never seen in any of the previous version of Mirai.
Hide the C&C server communication via Tor helps to avoid detection and stop reporting in surface web to take down the C&C server.