A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

After infecting vulnerable gear to form a zombie army of IoT devices, the ShadowV2 Mirai variant allows an attacker to remotely control the network of equipment and perform large-scale attacks, including distributed-denial-of-service ( DDoS ) traffic-flooding events.

Luckily, the malware only remained active during the day-long outage , which also knocked major websites offline for hours.

During that time, it propagated via several vulnerabilities affecting devices from multiple vendors, including DD-WRT ( CVE-2009-2765 ), D-Link ( CVE-2020-25506 , CVE-2

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