A new Mirai variant is targeting known flaws in D-Link, Netgear and SonicWall devices, as well as newly-discovered flaws in unknown IoT devices. It s only the latest variant of Mirai to come to light, years after source code for the malware was released in October 2016. The new variant has been targeting six known vulnerabilities and three previously unknown ones in order to infect systems and add them to a botnet. The attacks leverage a number of vulnerabilities.
Source: https://threatpost.com/mirai-variant-sonicwall-d-link-iot/164811/