"New Vulnerability Could Give Mirai the Ability to Survive Device Reboots"

A new vulnerability discovered by researchers from Pen Test enables infections from the Mirai IoT worm and other IoT malware to remain on devices, despite their reboots. Consequently, this vulnerability could lead to the development of permanent IoT botnets. This article further discusses how researchers discovered this vulnerability, other vulnerabilities discovered that could reignite and expand the Mirai IoT worm, as well as what vendors are doing to protect devices from future attacks of IoT malware. 

Bleeping Computer reports "New Vulnerability Could Give Mirai the Ability to Survive Device Reboots"