The network zombie virus Mirai has made a comeback, targeting two zero-day vulnerabilities to attack companies such as D-link.

CTOnews.com, November 23 (Xinhua)-- Internet zombies have begun to spread again these days. Researchers at Internet company Akamai said recently that hackers are using a variant of the zombie virus Mirai to launch attacks aimed at two zero-day vulnerabilities in network devices of several manufacturers.

▲ source Akamai zombie virus Mirai variants mainly target monitoring devices and routing devices of D-Link, Toshiba, TP-Link, Tenda, NetWare, Zyxel and other manufacturers. Hackers can download and deploy corresponding botnet viruses through Shell commands after using vulnerabilities to obtain device permissions.

▲ diagram source Akamai

▲ source AkamaiAkamai said it had reported the vulnerabilities to two manufacturers, one of which had promised to release security patches next month, but CTOnews.com found that Akamai did not disclose details such as vulnerability CVE to prevent it from being abused by hackers.