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Thousands of Asus routers hacked to create a major botnet planting damaging malware
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Thousands of Asus routers hacked to create a major botnet planting damaging malware

GreyNoise finds new hacking campaign targeting Asus hardware The threat actors are exploiting poorly secured routers to gain initial access They abuse known...

FBI warns outdated routers are being hacked and hijacked for criminal purposes
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FBI warns outdated routers are being hacked and hijacked for criminal purposes

FBI report warns on risk targeting outdated routers Numerous models have known vulnerabilities and are no longer supported FBI claims hackers are assimilating...

Experts warn of heatwave danger to routers, so act now before summer kicks in and temperatures could really soar – to the point that kills your Wi-Fi
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Experts warn of heatwave danger to routers, so act now before summer kicks in and temperatures could really soar – to the point that kills your Wi-Fi

Broadband provider Virgin Media has issued advice for UK users of its hub The company warns against placing a router in direct sunlight...

ASUS reveals critical security flaw affecting AiCloud routers, so patch now
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ASUS reveals critical security flaw affecting AiCloud routers, so patch now

ASUS patches a 9.2-rated security flaw in certain routers The flaw stems from AiCloud, a personal cloud server feature There’s no evidence of...

Multiple H3C Magic routers hit by critical severity remote command injection, with no fix in sight
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Multiple H3C Magic routers hit by critical severity remote command injection, with no fix in sight

Several H3C Magic router models have critical vulnerabilities The vulnerabilities allow for privilege escalation and command injection No patch has so far been...

Chinese hackers targeting Juniper Networks routers, so patch now
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Chinese hackers targeting Juniper Networks routers, so patch now

Researchers from Mandiant saw a new hacking campaign targeting Juniper Networks routers They attributed it to a Chinese actor, targeting telcos, defense, and...

This worrying botnet targets unsecure TP-Link routers – thousands of devices already hacked
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This worrying botnet targets unsecure TP-Link routers – thousands of devices already hacked

Old TP-Link router flaw is being abused again The threat actors are building out a botnet named Ballista They are operating from Italy...

ICYMI: the week’s 8 biggest tech stories, from the iPhone 16e to Wi-Fi 7 routers and a crackdown on Kindle piracy
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ICYMI: the week’s 8 biggest tech stories, from the iPhone 16e to Wi-Fi 7 routers and a crackdown on Kindle piracy

We say this every week, but what a week it’s been in tech: we’ve seen a flurry of new product launches, reported on...

Juniper Session Smart routers have a critical flaw, so patch now
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Juniper Session Smart routers have a critical flaw, so patch now

Juniper Networks says it found a critical flaw during internal testing Session Smart routers bug has a 9.8 severity score and allows full...