Who Got Hacked This Week? January 5 Edition

IoT Botnet Exploits Huawei Routers

Another variant of Mirai has hit once again, propagating rapidly by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a Huawei home router model.

Dubbed Satori (also known as Okiku), the Mirai variant has been targeting Huawei’s router model HG532, as Check Point security researchers said they tracked hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a vulnerability in the router model in the wild.

Identified initially by Check Point researchers late November, Satori was found infecting more than 200,000 IP addresses in just 12 hours earlier this month, according to an analysis posted by Chinese security firm 360 Netlab on December 5.