Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers have reported the emergence of a new Mirai botnet variant called MooBot. This variant is looking for unpatched D-Link devices to create its army of DDoS (distributed denial of service) bots. For compromising vulnerable D-Link routers, MooBot uses multiple exploits.
Re-Emergence of Notorious MooBot: The MooBot botnet was first discovered by Qihoo 360’s Netlab in Sep 2019, whereas the most recent wave of attacks involving MooBot, before the one detected b