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Australian routers are being recruited by huge DDoS botnet effort

A new attack aimed at building a massive botnet to launch paid-for traffic attacks is very likely to have recruited vulnerable routers based in Australia, according to security firm Flashpoint. The attack on routers across the globe this week could have added one to two million new bots to the specific Mirai botnet. The new version of Mirai malware is using a recently disclosed router flaw to exploit a messaging standard called TR-069. Roughly 40 vulnerable router models have been identified so far, says Flashpoint security firm.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3504624/australian-routers-are-being-recruited-by-huge-ddos-botnet-effort.html

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