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Hackers are attacking hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers with variants of Mirai malware in a bid to build a massive botnet like arsenal used in global cyberattacks in 2016, according to the Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point. A zero-day vulnerability in the Huawei home router HG532 is being exploited to deliver a payload called Satori (or Okiru) by an amateur identified as “Nexus Zeta,” Check Point says. Mirai malware was first discovered in August 2016. By October of that year, it was behind the vast denial-of-service attacks against the Domain Name System provider Dyn. The offensive brought down a wide array of services, including Twitter, Reddit, CNN, Fox News, Visa and Slack. Earlier this month, three men pleaded guilty to their roles in creating, operating and selling access to the botnet. Beginning in November 2017, Check Point detected global attacks against Huawei HG532 devices. One day later, the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab spotted 100,000 IP addresses in Argentina […]

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