• North America
• Cve-2025-24016
• Mirai
• Business Services
• CVE-2025-24016
• Wazuh
• United States

Exploitation of Wazuh Vulnerability by Mirai Botnet Variants

Researchers have reported that threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-24016) in Wazuh servers to deploy Mirai botnet variants for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This vulnerability allows remote code execution and has been targeted shortly after its public disclosure in February 2025. The attacks involve two different botnets using malicious shell scripts to download Mirai payloads from external servers. The research indicates that the botnets are leveraging various exploits, including those targeting IoT devices, and have been found to particularly focus on devices in regions such as China, India, and several others. The ongoing exploitation of this vulnerability highlights the rapid response of botnet operators to newly published security flaws.