Experts from MalwareMustDie spotted a new ELF trojan backdoor, dubbed ELF Linux/Mirai, which is now targeting IoT devices. The name of the malware is the same of the binary,mirai.*, and according to the experts, several attacks have been detected in the wild. The malware is still undetected by many antivirus solutions as confirmed by the very low detection ratio in the VirusTotal online scanning service. The reason for the lack of detection is because of lack of samples, which are difficult to fetch from the infected devices, routers, DVR or WebIP Camera, which this threat is aiming.”]
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