Security News > 2018 > November > Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

2018-11-08 07:58
Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).…
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