"Son of Mirai" botnet appears

While the Mirai IoT botnet primarily targeted consumer devices using default credentials, a spiritual successor has emerged which could potentially infect devices running on enterprise networks.Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 recently discovered a new strain of a botnet malware called Echobot which is based on Mirai's source code and targets flaws in business tools.In addition to previously targeted vulnerabilities, Echobot also tires to exploit the CVE-2019-2725 vulnerabilit