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InfectedSlurs Botnet Spreads Mirai via Zero-Days

Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard

CONTENT WARNING: The threat actors responsible for this malware use racial slurs and other offensive content as filenames that appear in our screenshots. We did not redact them in an effort to increase detection as this campaign is currently active in the wild.

Executive summary

\r\n \r\n The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality exploited in the wild.

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\r\n The two vulnerabilities have been reported to the vendors.…