Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai

The word ZERO-DAY is hidden amidst a screen filled with ones and zeroes.

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said Wednesday. Unknown attackers have been exploiting a 5-year-old vulnerability since March. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7029, is easy to exploit and allows attackers to execute malicious code. The AVM1203 is no longer sold or supported, so no update is available to fix the critical zero-day.

That time a ragtag army shook the Internet

Akamai said that the attackers are exploiting the vulnerability so they can install a variant of Mirai, which arrived in September 2016 when a botnet of infected devices took down cybersecurity news site Krebs on Security. Mirai contained functionality that allowed a ragtag army of compromised webcams, routers, and other types of IoT devices to wage distributed denial-of-service attacks of record-setting sizes. In the weeks that followed, the Mirai botnet delivered similar attacks on Internet service providers and other targets. One such attack, against dynamic domain name provider Dyn paralyzed vast swaths of the Internet.

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