Unit 42 researchers uncovered a modified version of the Mirai botnet that is actively abusing at least 22 security flaws in devices manufactured by the likes of D-Link, Arris, Zyxel, TP-Link, Tenda, Netgear, and MediaTek. The attackers aim to take control of these devices and utilize them to carry out DDoS attacks. Notably, this Mirai variant lacks the feature to brute force telnet/SSH login credentials.