Chinese researchers discovered a variant of Mirai with an offensive name
It targets industrial routers and smart home devices with zero-day flaws, misconfigurations, and poor passwords
Some 15,000 active IP addresses were found
A new malicious botnet was recently observed, spreading through zero-day vulnerabilities and assimilating industrial routers and smart home devices.
Cybersecurity researchers from the Chinese outfit Qi’anxin XLab claim the botnet is based on Mirai, an infamous piece of malware that’s known to be behind some of the biggest and most devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
