With attack, Mirai has added an exploit targeting Web service vulnerability.
November 29, 2016
A cyberattack that crippled Internet services for nearly one million customers of Deutsche Telekom earlier this week suggests that the threat posed by the Mirai IoT botnet malware is about to get a lot larger.
The attack is the first since Mirai surfaced in October that does not rely on weak and default passwords in routers, webcams, digital video recorders, and other so-called Internet of Things devices.
Instead it targeted a specific vulnerability in a management interface present in routers used by many customers of Deutsche Telekom with the goal of infecting the devices and making them part of a Mirai botnet. The infection attempts failed but nevertheless caused the routers to crash.