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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks

Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service, the company warned Thursday. The malicious network, made up almost entirely of TP-Link routers, was first documented in October 2023… Read More »

Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers

reader comments 35 with Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command and control servers maintained by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. A firmware implant, revealed in a write-up from Check Point Research, contains a full-featured… Read More »