Log4J Mirai Botnet Found Targeting Zyxel Networking Devices
Larry Cashdollar, a member of the Security Incident Response Team at Akamai Technologies, explained that Zyxel may have been specifically targeted because they published a blog noting they were impacted by the Log4j vulnerability. “The first sample I examined contained functions to scan for other vulnerable devices,” Cashdollar wrote in an Akamai blog post. “The second sample… did contain the standard Mirai attack functions,” he added. “It appears the… attack vectors had been removed in favor of Log4j exploitation....