In April, FortiGuard Labs observed a new botnet targeting a D-Link vulnerability from nearly a decade ago, CVE-2015-2051.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a GetDeviceSettings action on the HNAP interface. As a result, an attacker can create a crafted HTTP request with a malicious command embedded in the header. Fortinet IPS signature captured attempts to exploit the CVE-2015-2051 vulnerability to propagate a new botnet that they have named “Goldoon.”
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Source: Fortinet
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