Security Market Segment LS
  2. Home
  3. Security
  4. Huawei routers dominate new 100,000-device botnet
Wednesday, 06 December 2017 07:55

Huawei routers dominate new 100,000-device botnet

By
Huawei routers dominate new 100,000-device botnet

Two Huawei router models comprise about 90% of the devices that are part of a 100,000-strong botnet using an advanced new strain of the Mirai malware.

A report in Ars Technica said the warning about the botnet came from Dale Drew, the chief security strategist at broadband provider CenturyLink.

The source code for Mirai was leaked on the Hackforums community last year by someone using the pseudonym Anna-Senpai.

Since then, there have been numerous tweaks to the code and numerous versions accordingly released. The original Mirai was used in DDoS attacks that hit Twitter, GitHub and the PlayStation Network among others.
The two Huawei devices that are part of the new botnet are the EchoLife Home Gateway and the Huawei Home Gateway.

Ars said the new malware had 65,000 username and password combos to try to gain access to devices that it attacked.

Huawei has been contacted for comment.

LEARN HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MVNO

Did you know: 1 in 10 mobile services in Australia use an MVNO, as more consumers are turning away from the big 3 providers?

The Australian mobile landscape is changing, and you can take advantage of it.

Any business can grow its brand (and revenue) by adding mobile services to their product range.

From telcos to supermarkets, see who’s found success and learn how they did it in the free report ‘Rise of the MVNOs’.

This free report shows you how to become a successful MVNO:

· Track recent MVNO market trends
· See who’s found success with mobile
· Find out the secret to how they did it
· Learn how to launch your own MVNO service

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Published in Security
Tagged under
Sam Varghese

website statistics

Sam Varghese has been writing for iTWire since 2006, a year after the site came into existence. For nearly a decade thereafter, he wrote mostly about free and open source software, based on his own use of this genre of software. Since May 2016, he has been writing across many areas of technology. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years in India (Indian Express and Deccan Herald), the UAE (Khaleej Times) and Australia (Daily Commercial News (now defunct) and The Age). His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

Latest from Sam Varghese

Related items

More in this category: « Apple bid to fix root login bug looks like comedy of errors Mimecast concern at ‘alarming’ number of impersonation attacks on emails »
back to top

VENDOR NEWS & EVENTS

REVIEWS

Recent Comments