FICORA and Kaiten Botnets Exploit Old D-Link Vulnerabilities for Global Attacks
Briefly

from The Hacker News1 month ago
These botnets are frequently spread through documented D-Link vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to execute malicious commands via a GetDeviceSettings action on the HNAP interface.
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According to the cybersecurity company's telemetry data, attacks involving FICORA have targeted various countries globally, whereas those related to CAPSAICIN primarily singled out East Asian territories like Japan and Taiwan.
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The Mirai derivative also packs in features to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using UDP, TCP, and DNS protocols.
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The malware kills known botnet processes to ensure it is the only botnet executing on the victim host.
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