As Security Week reports, many of the vulnerable devices which have made up the Mirai botnet contain software and hardware manufactured by a Chinese company called XiongMai Technologies: XiongMai ships vulnerable software that has ended up in at least half a million devices worldwide. The fact that these devices can be accessed with default credentials should not pose a major risk as long as they
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