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Chinese botnet infects 260,000 SOHO routers, IP cameras with malware

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 geekfeed0Tagged APT, Botnet, china, Chinese botnet, Flax Typhoon, IoT, IP cameras, malware, Raptor Train, SOHO Router

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called “Raptor Train” that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in other countries. The botnet has been used to target entities in the military, government, higher education, telecommunications, defense industrial base (DIB), and IT sectors, mainly in […]

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Malware exploits 5-year-old zero-day to infect end-of-life IP cameras

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 geekfeed0Tagged Actively Exploited, AVTech, Botnet, Camera, Command Injection, Corona, IP cameras, malware, Mirai, Remote Code Execution, Security Camera

The Corona Mirai-based malware botnet is spreading through a 5-year-old remote code execution (RCE) zero-day in AVTECH IP cameras, which have been discontinued for years and will not receive a patch. The flaw, discovered by Akamai’s Aline Eliovich, is tracked as CVE-2024-7029 and is a high-severity (CVSS v4 score: 8.7) issue in the “brightness” function […]

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