VERY IMPORTANT

2018 saw a continued increase in the emergence of campaigns involving variants incorporating several exploits within the same sample, allowing for the harvesting of several different kinds of IoT devices into the same botnet. Since then PaloAlto have also observed Mirai malware authors experimenting with new exploits, found on the publicly available exploit-db, to gauge gains in both count from the use of these exploits. This latest new variant we’ve observed and detailed in this post appears to be a continuation of the same trend.