Fortinet cybersecurity experts: Threat actors leverage the critical vulnerability CVE-2021-36260 to install and run the malware, a Mirai botnet variant.
Cloudflare cybersecurity experts: The aggression was launched by more than 20,000 Mirai’s bots in 125 countries. Many of them originated from Indonesia, India and Brazil.
Palo Alto Networks cyber security experts: Latest Mirai variant contains a total of 71 unique exploits, 13 of these vulnerabilities haven’t been previously seen exploited.
The cyber security expert Larry Cashdollar: It has already hit over 2,000 devices. The author, the 14-year-old Light Leafon, now want to expand it adding more functions and exploits.
Palo Alto cyber security experts: The malware in particular hit Wireless Presentation & Display Systems. Cybercrime IoT/Linux botnets continue to expand their attack surface.