Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...
Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...
The botnet’s preferred targets include Four-Faith and Neterbit routers or smart home devices. Experts from VulnCheck reported at the end of December that a vulnerability in Four-Faith industrial ...
Viruses remain fascinating. We don't know whether they predate more complex forms of life, like bacteria, or descended from them. Viruses have complex relationships with bacteria, one infectious agent ...
A new Mirai-based botnetis actively exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability that has not received a tracker number and appears to be unpatched in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro NVRs. The campaign ...
It’s safe to say that the last few years have been eventful when it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT) threat landscape, with new waves of distributed denial of service (DDoS) bots emerging with ...
Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...
A newly identified malware campaign has been observed exploiting a command injection flaw in digital video recorder (DVR) devices to deploy a Mirai-based botnet, according to analysis by FortiGuard ...
A new Mirai-based botnet malware named ‘ShadowV2’ has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs ...