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AI system detects and blocks Mirai botnet intrusion in real time

Original: Someone was breaking into my servers. An AI caught them, named them (Mirai, 91% sure), blocked them, and wrote a rule to

A security practitioner reports that an AI-driven defence tool autonomously stopped an intrusion attempt on their servers, identifying the attacker as the Mirai botnet with 91% confidence, blocking the traffic, and drafting a new detection rule. The rule only went live after being validated against 5,000 real events, a process completed in four minutes on live production systems.

Why now: Autonomous AI cybersecurity response that both detects and writes new blocking rules in production is a striking proof point in ongoing debates about AI in security operations

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• Someone was breaking into my servers. An AI caught them, named them (Mirai, 91% sure), blocked them, and wrote a rule to catch the next one. It couldn't ship that rule until it passed 5,000 real events. Four minutes. Live production. Nothing staged. https://… · ninjaintelgroup · 2

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