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Mirai variant ‘Beastmode’ exploits fresh vulnerabilities

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:21:34 +0000

A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed exploiting recently-discovered vulnerabilities. The Mirai botnet is composed primarily of IoT and embedded devices. In 2016, Mirai made national headlines when it used exploited connected devices to overwhelm several high-profile targets with record-setting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Mirai’s original creator was arrested in the... Read more »

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Researchers discover another Mirai variant targeting new IoT vulnerabilities

Ryan Daws — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:00:24 +0000

Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered another Mirai variant that is targeting new IoT vulnerabilities. Researchers from Unit 42, the cybersecurity division of Palo Alto Networks, discovered a number of attacks on Feb 16th, 2021 that leveraged vulnerabilities including: VisualDoor (a SonicWall SSL-VPN exploit). CVE-2020-25506 (a D-Link DNS-320 firewall exploit). CVE-2020-26919 (a Netgear... Read more »

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Netlab researchers discover IoT botnets HEH and Ttint

Ryan Daws — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:51:44 +0000

Security researchers from Netlab have discovered two new IoT botnets called HEH and Ttint. Netlab is the network research division of Chinese cybersecurity giant Qihoo 360. The company’s researchers first spotted the Ttint botnet targeting Tenda routers using two zero-day vulnerabilities. Ttint spreads a remote control trojan based on code from the Mirai malware. Mirai... Read more »

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