Security News > 2018 > August > Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware
2018-08-03 09:18
Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from Latvian network hardware provider Mikrotik across the world, with the number still increasing as of
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