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Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bittner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

down the threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems and protecting

ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

If you followed Akamai service publications before, you might know that we run a global network of honey pots that collect on a lot of different vulnerabilities that different

kind of botnets are targeting. These tend to be IoT devices,

but if you've been following Marai botnets or botnets in general for a while,

you might know that sometimes they do target vulnerabilities

or machines that are not IoT, like in this case.

That's Kyle Lefton, security researcher at Akamai.

The research we're discussing today is titled Two Two Bot Nets, One Flaw.

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