Tag Archives: routers

Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”

Getty Images reader comments 36 with Hackers backed by the Chinese government are planting malware into routers that provides long-lasting and undetectable backdoor access to the networks of multinational companies in the US and Japan, governments in both countries said Wednesday. The hacking group, tracked under names including BlackTech, Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio… Read More: Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic… »

It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images) reader comments 81 with On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that their devices suddenly froze up for no apparent reason and then,… Read More: It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass… »

Used routers often come loaded with corporate secrets

aquatarkus/Getty Images reader comments 56 with Share this story You know that you’re supposed to wipe your smartphone or laptop before you resell it or give it to your cousin. After all, there’s a lot of valuable personal data on there that should stay in your control. Businesses and other institutions need to take the… Read More: Used routers often come loaded with corporate secrets »

Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS poisoning flaw

Getty Images reader comments 37 with 29 posters participating Share this story Hardware and software makers are scrambling to determine if their wares suffer from a critical vulnerability recently discovered in third-party code libraries used by hundreds of vendors, including Netgear, Linksys, Axis, and the Gentoo embedded Linux distribution. The flaw makes it possible for… Read More: Gear from Netgear, Linksys, and 200 others has unpatched DNS… »

300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say

Getty Images reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating Share this story As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm… Read More: 300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say »

Home and office routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns

reader comments 122 with 83 posters participating Share this story China state hackers are compromising large numbers of home and office routers for use in a vast and ongoing attack against organizations in France, authorities from that county said. The hacking group—known in security circles as APT31, Zirconium, Panda, and other names—has historically conducted espionage… Read More: Home and office routers come under attack by China state… »

Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Network devices maker Ubiquiti has been covering up the severity of a data breach that puts customers’ hardware at risk of unauthorized access, KrebsOnSecurity has reported, citing an unnamed whistleblower inside the company. In January, the maker of routers, Internet-connected cameras, and other networked devices, disclosed what it said was “unauthorized… Read More: Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover »