New Mirai Malware Variant Targets AVTECH Cameras, Huawei Routers

Murdoc_Botnet, a new Mirai-derived IoT botnet, is actively exploiting CVE-2024-7029 and CVE-2017-17215 to infect AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers using shell scripts and ELF payloads; researchers observed over 1,300 active IPs and 100+ C2 servers across countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Mexico and Indonesia, with infections used to mount large-scale DDoS attacks and guidance urging patching, avoiding unknown scripts, and monitoring anomalous device activity.