![]() ![]() ![]() It has been constantly noted by researchers that there have been repeated attempts to come up with new variants of the Mirai botnet. ![]() ![]() The most affected countries by this attack were Germany, Italy, Egypt and the USA. A signature of several thousand attempts of automated attacks to exploit the vulnerability was detected recently. The vulnerability in the Huawei HG532 routers was reportedly being exploited in the wild to spread variants of a Mirai botnet named ‘Okiku’. The Vulnerability Used By Attackers to Remotely Spread Mirai Variant As described by Huawei in its post, “Successful exploit could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.” The Remote Code Vulnerability in the afore said router model tracked as CVE-2017-17215 allows attackers to send malicious data packets to port 37215 to launch attacks. The issue was notified by the research department of a software company.Īccording to reports, the Zero-day vulnerability in the Huawei home router HG532 was detected and subsequently the Huawei PSIRT team was notified on November 27, 2017. Huawei Product Security Response Team (PSIRT) has issued a security notice on its website accepting the fact that the Huawei HG532 routers are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. ![]()
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