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TheMoon botnet is now leveraging a zero-day to target GPON routers

May 22, 2018

Researchers from security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab reported that cybercriminals are continuing to target the Dasan GPON routers, they recently spotted threat actors using another new zero-day flaw affecting the same routers and recruit them in their botnet.

At the time of writing, there aren’t further details on the vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in the wild, Qihoo 360 Netlab experts only confirmed that the exploit code they tested worked on two models of GPON routers.

The security firm has refused to release further details on this flaw to prevent more attacks but said it was able to reproduce its effects.

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