Mirai Botnet Starts Exploiting OMIGOD Flaw as Microsoft Issues More Guidance
Microsoft’s guidance was published just as researchers noticed that one of the vulnerabilities is already being exploited in the wild. It appears that the Mirai botnet is attempting to compromise vulnerable systems and that it also closes port 5896 (OMI SSL port) to keep other attackers out. An open-source Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) implementation, OMI…