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Industrial routers are being hit by zero-days from new Mirai botnets

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A new malicious botnet was recently observed, spreading through zero-day vulnerabilities and assimilating industrial routers and smart home devices.

Researchers from the Chinese outfit Qi’anxin XLab claim the botnet is based on Mirai , an infamous piece of malware that’s known to be behind some of the biggest and most devastating DDoS attacks.

Some of the vulnerabilities have never been seen before, and don’t have CVEs assigned just yet.

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