"Latest Mirai Variant Targets SonicWall, D-Link and IoT Devices"

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered that a new variant of the Mirai botnet is targeting known flaws in D-Link, Netgear, and SonicWall devices, as well as newly discovered flaws in unknown IoT devices. Since February 16, the new variant has been targeting six known vulnerabilities and three previously unknown ones in order to infect systems and add them to a botnet. The researchers stated that upon successful exploitation, the attackers try to download a malicious shell script, which contains further infection behaviors such as downloading and executing Mirai variants and brute-forcers.

Threatpost reports: "Latest Mirai Variant Targets SonicWall, D-Link and IoT Devices"