Patch now! The Mirai IoT botnet is exploiting TP-Link routers

Businesses should patch their TP-Link routers as soon as possible, after the revelation that a legendary IoT botnet is targeting them for recruitment. The notorious Mirai botnet, which hijacks control of vulnerable IoT devices, is now exploiting TP-Link Archer AX21 routers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The warning comes from security researchers and the US Government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), after it was identified that a security flaw in the TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi router was being actively exploited in order to allow malicious…