{"id":202514,"date":"2024-12-27T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ficora-and-kaiten-botnets-exploit-old-d-link-vulnerabilities-for-global-attacks"},"modified":"2024-12-27T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:06:00","slug":"ficora-and-kaiten-botnets-exploit-old-d-link-vulnerabilities-for-global-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ficora-and-kaiten-botnets-exploit-old-d-link-vulnerabilities-for-global-attacks","title":{"rendered":"FICORA and Kaiten Botnets Exploit Old D-Link Vulnerabilities for Global Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ficora-and-kaiten-botnets-exploit-old-d-link-vulnerabilities-for-global-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in malicious activity that involves roping vulnerable D-Link routers into two different botnets, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/12\/juniper-warns-of-mirai-botnet-targeting.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mirai<\/a> variant dubbed FICORA and a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/09\/new-linux-malware-campaign-exploits.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiten<\/a> (aka Tsunami) variant called CAPSAICIN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese botnets are frequently spread through documented D-Link vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to execute malicious commands via a GetDeviceSettings action on the HNAP (Home Network Administration Protocol) interface,\u201d Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Vincent Li <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/blog\/threat-research\/botnets-continue-to-target-aging-d-link-vulnerabilities\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a Thursday analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis HNAP weakness was first exposed almost a decade ago, with numerous devices affected by a variety of CVE numbers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2015-2051\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2015\u20132051<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2019-10891\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2019\u201310891<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2022-37056\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2022\u201337056<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2024-33112\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2024\u201333112<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in malicious activity that involves roping vulnerable D-Link routers into two different botnets, a Mirai variant dubbed FICORA and a Kaiten (aka Tsunami) variant called CAPSAICIN. \u201cThese botnets are frequently spread through documented D-Link vulnerabilities that allow remote attackers to execute malicious commands via a GetDeviceSettings action on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}