Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2018
While a new variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet, so-called Wicked Mirai, emerged in the wild the operators of the Mirai Satori botnet appear very active. Experts observed hackers using the Satori botnet to mass-scan the Internet for exposed Ethereum mining pools, they are scanning for devices with port 3333 exposed online. The port 3333 is a port […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2018
Masuta botnet targets routers using default credentials, one of the versions analyzed dubbed âPureMasutaâ relies on the old network administration EDB 38722 D-Link exploit. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the botnet. “We analyzed two variants of an IoT botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2017
The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available. Before Christmas, the Mirai botnet made the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori was responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The activity of the Satori […]
