A new botnet is hunting down and transforming infected routers, DVRs, and UPnP network devices into honeypots that help it find other targets to infect.
The malware, dubbed ZHtrap by the 360 Netlab security researchers who spotted it, is loosely based on Mirai’s source code, and it comes with support for x86, ARM, MIPS, and other CPU architectures.
Once it takes over a device, it prevents other malware from re-infecting its bots with the help of a whitelist that only allows already running system processes, blocking all attempts to run new commands.
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Source: Bleeping Computer