router hacking
ASUS Router User? Patch ASAP!
Or junk it if EOL: Two nasty vulnerabilities need an update—pronto ...
‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ — 600,000+ Rural ISP Routers Bricked Beyond Repair
Daft name, serious risk: Kit from ActionTec and Sagemcom remotely ruined and required replacement ...
Study: Most Home Routers Have Unpatched Vulnerabilities
A study performed by the non-profit American Consumer Institute (ACI) Center for Citizen Research revealed that the majority of home routers have tens of known vulnerabilities. For its research, the ACI used ...
100K Routers Hijacked for Phishing in GhostDNS Campaign
Security researchers warn about a massive attack campaign in which more than 100,000 routers had their DNS settings hijacked to redirect users to phishing websites. The campaign has been dubbed GhostDNS and ...
Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week, August 06-10
A new week, a new crop of security stories. Last week, U.S. Military ‘Reaper Drone’ Designs, Eavesdropping on mobile devices, Making security priority and Multifactor authentication adoption made the headlines. In addition, ...
For Sale: U.S. Military ‘Reaper Drone’ Designs
A recent hack of an Air Force captain assigned to the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, and the subsequent offer for sale of the “Reaper Drone” design ...
170K+ MikroTik Routers Inject Cryptomining Script
A hacker has managed to compromise more than 170,000 routers made by MikroTik and uses them to inject browser-based cryptomining scripts into legitimate websites visited by users. According to Simon Kenin, a ...
Routers Prove to Be an Easy Target for Russian Hackers
You may unknowingly be part of a Russian hacking campaign. No, I’m not talking about election tampering; this is a different, but ongoing, tactic. Hackers are targeting the types of routers and ...
