Blog Security Research InfectedSlurs Botnet Spreads Mirai via Zero-Days Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard CONTENT WARNING: The threat actors responsible for this malware use racial slurs and other offensive content as filenames that appear in our screenshots. We did not redact them in an effort to increase detection as this campaign is currently active in the wild. Executive summary \r\n \r\n The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution (RCE) functionality exploited in the wild. \r\n \r\n \r\n The two vulnerabilities have been reported to the vendors. We are waiting on updates about impacted models and patch availability from those vendors  (expected in December 2023) before we can release more details.  \r\n \r\n These vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild to build a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet.…