Zyxel Devices Being Exploited by Active Mirai Botnet Variant for D

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed a new wave of IoT-enabled DDoS attacks being committed by a botnet variant called IZ1H9 since April 2023.

The intrusions leverage remote code execution flaws in internet-exposed IoT devices, including Zyxel to ensnare them into a network for orchestrating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Shadowserver reports that the flaw is being actively exploited to build a Mirai-like botnet since May 26, 2023 and joins the SessionThe disclosure also comes as Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 detailed an attack campaign against IoT devices leveraging a remote code execution flaw called CVE-2018-0x73 Patch 1.

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