As reported widely in the press, the Genesis Market is no more. On Tuesday 4th April 2023, the FBI seized control of the infamous marketplace that’d had hundreds of thousands of stolen digital identities for sale, replacing its login page with a takedown notice and call for further information from its users.

As part of our recently released 2022 Threat Roundup report, Forescout Vedere Labs described how the Mirai IoT botnet continues to evolve via new variants and adaptations, such as Gafgyt and RapperBot, more than six years after it started taking over IoT devices and had its source code leaked.