
Recently, cybersecurity experts have unearthed a new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet targeting a known security vulnerability in Four-Faith industrial routers, significantly elevating the risk of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This botnet, dubbed “gayfemboy,” has been actively utilizing an OS command injection flaw under the code CVE-2024-12856, affecting Four-Faith router models F3x24 and F3x36, and exploiting default