New Mirai Variant and ZHtrap Botnet Malware Emerge in the Wild

A new Mirai variant and ZHtrap botnet malware have emerged, exploiting multiple vulnerabilities to infect IoT devices and networked systems. The attacks involve exploiting VisualDoor, CVE-2020-25506, CVE-2021-27561, CVE-2021-27562, CVE-2021-22502, CVE-2019-19356, and CVE-2020-26919, as well as deploying wget utility to download a shell script for fetching Mirai and facilitating brute-force attacks. Furthermore, a new ZHtrap botnet is discovered, utilizing a honeypot and borrowing features from the Matryosh DDoS botnet