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#2 The Hacker News general April 18, 2026 at 06:01 UTC

Mirai Variant Nexcorium Exploits CVE-2024-3721 to Hijack TBK DVRs for DDoS Botnet

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2024-3721 in TBK DVR devices and end-of-life TP-Link routers to deploy Mirai botnet variants called Nexcorium for DDoS attacks. Fortinet and Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers identified this campaign targeting the medium-severity command injection flaw with a CVSS score of 6.3.

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Relevance score: 90.0/100

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