IoT Malware Evolves to Harvest Bots by Exploiting a Zero-day Home Router Vulnerability

In early December 2017, 360 Netlab discovered a new malware family which they named Satori. Satori is a derivative of Mirai and exploits two vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8361 a code execution vulnerability in the miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK, and CVE 2017-17215 a newly discovered vulnerability in Huawei’s HG532e home gateway patched in early December 2017.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 investigated Satori, and from our intelligence data, we have found there ...