Mirai - botnet
A new Mirai-based botnet exploits a zero-day vulnerability in thousands of routers and cameras from various brands. The vulnerability allows the botnet to execute arbitrary code on the devices and use them for malicious purposes, such as launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks or stealing sensitive data. It seems that none of the vendors have issued a patch yet. There are some mitigation steps for protecting your devices, such as changing the default passwords, restricting remote access, and updating the firmware if possible.
More information can be found here:
Thousands of routers and cameras vulnerable to new 0-day attacks by hostile botnet – Ars Technica
Dan Goodin
New botnet malware exploits two zero-days to infect NVRs and routers
A new Mirai-based malware botnet named ‘InfectedSlurs’ has been exploiting two zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices.
