VERY IMPORTANT

Within a span of three weeks, our telemetry uncovered three notable malware variants of Neko, Mirai, and Bashlite. On July 22, 2019, we saw and started analyzing a Neko botnet sample, then observed another sample with additional exploits the following week. A Mirai variant that calls itself “Asher” surfaced on July 30, then a Bashlite variant called “Ayedz” the following week. These malware variants enlist infected routers to botnets that are capable of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.