Security News > 2025 > May > Hackers Exploit Samsung MagicINFO, GeoVision IoT Flaws to Deploy Mirai Botnet
2025-05-06 15:33
Threat actors have been observed actively exploiting security flaws in GeoVision end-of-life (EoL) Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corral them into a Mirai botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The activity, first observed by the Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) in early April 2025, involves the exploitation of two operating system command
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