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Malware exploits 5-year-old zero-day to infect end-of-life IP cameras

Image: Midjourney The Corona Mirai-based malware botnet is spreading through a 5-year-old remote code execution (RCE) zero-day in AVTECH IP cameras, which have been discontinued for years and will not receive a patch. The flaw, discovered by Akamai’s Aline Eliovich, is tracked as CVE-2024-7029 and is a high-severity (CVSS v4 score: 8.7) issue in the “brightness” function of the cameras,…