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On Thursday, cybersecurity experts disclosed details regarding a newly discovered Mirai-inspired botnet called “mirai_ptea”. It exploits an undisclosed flaw in a digital video recorder (DVR) provided by KGUARD to propagate and execute a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Netlab 360, a Chinese security company pinned the first investigation into defects on March 23, 2021, before aggressive botnet attempts were detected on June 22, 2021. Since the emergence of the Mirai botnet in 2016, it has been linked to a series of large-scale DDoS attacks.
In October 2016, users of DNS service provider Dyn in Europe and North America lost access to major Internet platforms and services. Since then, numerous versions of Mirai have sprung up in the field, partly because the source code is available on the internet. Mirai_ptea is no exception.
According to researchers, the Mirai botnet is a piece of nasty Internet of Things (IoT) malware that compromised 300,000 IoT devices, such as wireless cameras, routers, and digital video recorders. It scans Internet of Things devices and uses default passwords and then adds the passwords into a botnet network, which is then used to launch DDoS attacks on websites and Internet infrastructure.
Newly discovered Mirai Botnet is Exploiting DVR in DDoS Attack