Nexus Zeta
- Primary motivation
- financial-gain
- Sophistication
- intermediate
- Resource level
- organization
- Actor type
- criminal
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 11:54:38
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications
Context
Nexus Zeta is no stranger when it comes to implementing SOAP related exploits. The threat actor has already been observed in implementing two other known SOAP related exploits, CVE-2014–8361 and CVE-2017–17215 in his Satori botnet project. A third SOAP exploit, TR-069 bug has also been observed previously in IoT botnets. This makes EDB 38722 the fourth SOAP related exploit which is discovered in the wild by IoT botnets.
Reports & references
- blog.newskysecurity.com — Masuta Satori Creators Second Botnet Weaponizes A New Router Exploit 2Ddc51Cc52A7 (report)