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Zyxel firewalls under attack by Mirai-like botnet

CVE-2023-28771, the critical command injection vulnerability affecting many Zyxel firewalls, is being actively exploited by a Mirai-like botnet, and has been added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. About CVE-2023-28771 CVE-2023-28771 is a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute OS commands remotely by sending crafted IKE (Internet Key Exchange) packets to an affected device. Fixed by Zyxel in April 2023, it was expected to be quickly exploited by attackers once technical write-ups and … More ? The post Zyxel firewalls under attack by Mirai-like botnet appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Zyxel firewalls under attack by Mirai-like botnet

The average DDoS attack tripled in volume

The average packet volume for DDoS attacks increased 340 percent to 4.36 million packets per second (Mpps), and the average bit volume swelled 245 percent to 12.1 Gbps in the final quarter of 2014, ac…

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