Critical Cacti vulnerability leveraged for malware deployment

Threat actors have been actively exploiting an already addressed critical vulnerability impacting the Cacti device monitoring tool, tracked as CVE-2022-46169, to deliver the Mirai malware and PERL-based IRC botnet that resulted in the opening of a host-based reverse shell, according to BleepingComputer.

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