Security News > 2024 > December > FICORA and Kaiten Botnets Exploit Old D-Link Vulnerabilities for Global Attacks
2024-12-27 07:11
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in malicious activity that involves roping vulnerable D-Link routers into two different botnets, a Mirai variant dubbed FICORA and a Kaiten (aka Tsunami) variant called CAPSAICIN. "These botnets are frequently spread through documented D-Link vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to execute malicious commands via a GetDeviceSettings
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