Huawei Home Routers in Botnet Recruitment
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A Zero-Day vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215) in the Huawei home router HG532 has been discovered by Check Point Researchers, and hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit it have already been found in the wild. The delivered payload has been identified as OKIRU/SATORI, an updated variant of Mirai. The suspected threat actor behind the attack has been […]
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