Mirai malware targeting top TP-Link routers to hijack into DDoS attacks

Date:
Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:14:36 +0000

Description:
TP-Link routers in Eastern Europe were the first to be targeted with a high-severity flaw.

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Experts have detected a high-severity security flaw in certain TP-Link Wi-Fi routers thats currently being used to hijack the devices and recruit them
into a vast botnet that would later be used for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

A report from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a program created to encourage the reporting of zero-day vulnerabilities privately to the affected vendors found that since mid-April this year, threat actors started abusing CVE-2023-1389, a high-severity flaw found in TP-Link Archer A21 (AX1800)
Wi-Fi routers.

The flaw, carrying a severity score of 8.8, is described as an
unauthenticated command injection flaw in the locale API of the web
management interface on the device. Mirai expanding

Hackers are using the flaw to deploy the Mirai malware , ZDI further states, which turns the targeted device into a bot for the Mirai botnet. They first targeted routers in Eastern Europe earlier this month, only to expand
globally later on.

TP-Link was tipped off on the existence of the zero-day in January this year, after two separate research groups demonstrated how to abuse the flaw during the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking event in December 2022. The company first tried
to fix the issue in late February, but the patch was incomplete and the devices remained vulnerable. Read more

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Last month, however, TP-Link issued a new firmware update that successfully addressed CVE-2023-1389. IT admins and owners of the Archer AX21 AX1800 Wi-Fi router should make sure their devices hardware is updated at least to version 1.1.4 Build 20230219.

Some of the symptoms of a compromised router include frequent disconnections from the internet, changes on the devices network settings that no one seems to have made, the resetting of administrator credentials, and the
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Via: BleepingComputer



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