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A new Mirai-Like IoT Botnet is growing in a new mysterious campaign

October 20, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini

 

Malware researchers at Check Point have uncovered a new massive IoT botnet that presented many similarities with the dreaded Mirai.

 

The new thing bot emerged at the end of September and appears much more sophisticated, according to the experts the malware already infected more than one million organizations worldwide.

 

The malicious code tries to exploit many known-vulnerabilities in various IP camera models, including GoAhead, D-Link, TP-Link, AVTECH, NETGEAR, MikroTik, Linksys, and Synology.

 

The experts speculate that the malware once compromised a device use it to spread itself.

 

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