A newly observed variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is capable of setting up proxy servers on the infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Fortinet warns.
Mirai is a distributed denial of service (DDoS)-capable malware family that emerged in late 2016. Targeting
IoT devices to add them to
a botnet and launch powerful attacks, Mirai has been involved on some
massive incidents right from the start.
Referred to as OMG because of strings containing "OOMGA" it its configuration table, the malware keeps most of Mirai’s capabilities, but also adds its own features to the mix.
Unlike Mirai, the OMG variant’s configuration includes two strings used to add a firewall rule to ensure traffic on two random ports is allowed, Fortinet
discovered.
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