Akamai reported that a critical, five-year-old vulnerability in AVTECH's AVM1203 security camera is being exploited by hackers to spread the Mirai malware, allowing for massive DDoS attacks.
The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7029, is particularly dangerous because it can be easily exploited to execute malicious code, and since the AVM1203 is no longer supported, no fix is available.
Kyle Lefton from Akamai’s Security Intelligence and Response Team noted that attackers are exploiting this vulnerability for DDoS attacks against various organizations, although specifics were not disclosed.
The original Mirai malware, which surfaced in 2016, enabled a botnet comprised of IoT devices to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks of unprecedented scale, crippling major Internet services.
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