New Mirai variant Evooo1Bot adds stealth capabilities

Researchers at FortiGuard Labs identified Evooo1Bot, a Linux-based Mirai variant exploiting unpatched bugs in Alcatel, D-Link, Mitsubishi Electric, Netgear, Tenda, and Telesquare hardware for at least a month. It adds encrypted command-and-control communications, SSH scanning, credential sniffing, and SOCKS proxy abuse.