{"id":2386,"date":"2025-01-29T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/mirai-variant-targets-avtech-ip-cameras-huawei-routers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:29:41","slug":"mirai-variant-targets-avtech-ip-cameras-huawei-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/mirai-variant-targets-avtech-ip-cameras-huawei-routers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirai Variant Targets AVTECH IP Cameras &#038; Huawei Routers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Murdoc Botnet Campaign Exploits Security Flaws in AVTECH IP Cameras and Huawei HG532 Routers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Ravie Lakshmanan<br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> January 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong> Botnet \/ Vulnerability<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikmSke4NE6m8JSN4ivC13AYK1SLKclqGXJdHZHJywJl_C5PYKa7ULECJQ0rsVWfIxnzc1PFGYOd5aluSk2BuJM_3GWm5mj180YoGx1MH9QEvj2SE-hNu8KOt3azq-Cd1dDj9CNvVwd5JeFTqC2zm8HcqGLeBydbvbpm_YIrZP5GE_oakL2StxmvJe2w8IW\/s728-rw-e365\/hacking.png\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet variant dubbed Murdoc Botnet. The ongoing activity &quot;demonstrates enhanced capabilities, exploiting vulnerabilities to conduct DDoS attacks and other malicious purposes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>To safeguard against such attacks, it&#8217;s advised to monitor suspicious processes, events, and network traffic spawned by the execution of any untrusted binary\/scripts. It&#8217;s also recommended to apply firmware updates and change the default username and password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new report from exposure management platform Censys has revealed that there are <a href=\"https:\/\/search.censys.io\/search?resource=hosts&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;per_page=25&amp;virtual_hosts=EXCLUDE&amp;q=services.http.response.body%3A%22murdoc_botnet%22+\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">221 Murdoc-infected hosts<\/a> concentrated in Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, and Hong Kong, stating the reported number of more than 1,300 compromised devices is likely an overestimate.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They include &#8216;truncated&#8217; hosts and pseudoservices that respond on over 100+ open ports \u2013 behavior which exceeds reasonable standards and is likely not reflective of genuine hosts,&quot; Censys added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn<\/strong> to read more exclusive content we post.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/01\/murdocbotnet-found-exploiting-avtech-ip.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Murdoc Botnet Campaign Exploits Security Flaws in AVTECH IP Cameras and Huawei HG532 Routers Author: Ravie Lakshmanan Date: January 21, 2025 Tags: Botnet \/ Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have warned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[46,39,32,31,33,34,35,40,36,37,42,44,43,41,38,45],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cybersecurity","tag-computer-security","tag-cyber-attacks","tag-cyber-news","tag-cyber-security-news","tag-cyber-security-news-today","tag-cyber-security-updates","tag-cyber-updates","tag-data-breach","tag-hacker-news","tag-hacking-news","tag-how-to-hack","tag-information-security","tag-network-security","tag-ransomware-malware","tag-software-vulnerability","tag-the-hacker-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/hacking.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}