Recently a new botnet, tracked Echobot, appeared in the threat landscape its operators are adding new exploits to infect a broad range of systems, including IoT devices, enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan.
The Echobot botnet was first detected by experts at PaloAlto Networks early this month, the botnet is based on the dreaded Mirai botnet. At the time of its discovery, operators added 8 new exploits, but currently, it includes 26 exploits.
The popular expert Larry Cashdollar, from Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), spotted a new version of the Echobot botnet that counts 26 different exploits.
