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The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-1389, was patched a few months later, in March 2023.

Mirai is considered one of the largest and most disruptive botnets out there.

Botnet

When they find such devices, they infect them withmalwarethat gives them the ability to run certain commands.

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