Aggressive Scans by Hajime Botnet Targeting Port 8291 With a new Exploit | Linux Today

Aggressive Scans by Hajime Botnet Targeting Port 8291 With a new Exploit

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Gurubaran
Mar 28, 2018

Hajime Botnet variant made a massive come back with new features and this time it targets port 8291 to check whether the device running vulnerable Mikrotik RouterOS.

Attackers propagating the bot to exploit the vulnerabilities in the RouterOS that allow???s them to execute remote execution code on the device.

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Gurubaran

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