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A hacker claims to have created a botnet within 24 hours that has compromised 18,000 routers of Chinese telecom giant Huawei
The cyberattacker, who bears the pseudonym Anarchy, boasted of building the botnet using an old vulnerability , ZDNet reported on Friday.
According to a report in Bleeping Computer, this new botnet was spotted this week by security researchers from a cybersecurity firm called NewSky Security.
Following the news, other security companies like Rapid7 and Qihoo 360 Netlab have confirmed "
The botnet's author contacted Ankit Anubhav, NewSky's security researcher, who believes that Anarchy may well be an actor of the well-known threat, previously identified as Wicked. 19659002] What's surprising security researchers, is that Anarchy has built the gigantic botnet in a day using a previously used vulnerability – CVE-2017-17215
Botnets, which refer to a A large network of slave devices can be used to perform a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS attack), send malicious data packets to a device, and execute code remotely.
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