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Title: Mirai-based Botnet Exploiting Zero-Day Bugs in Routers and NVRs for Massive DDoS Attacks
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Mirai-based Botnet Exploiting Zero-Day Bugs in Routers and NVRs for Massive DDoS Attacks

An active malware campaign is leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet.
"The payload targets routers and network video recorder (NVR) devices with default admin credentials and installs Mirai variants when successful," Akamai said in an

Source: Mirai-based Botnet Exploiting Zero-Day Bugs in Routers and NVRs for Massive DDoS Attacks (https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/mirai-based-botnet-exploiting-zero-day.html)