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MikroTik is a Latvian manufacturer of routers and wireless ISPs who has sold over 2,000,000 devices globally. In August, the Mēris botnet exploited vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers to create an army of devices that performed a record-breaking DDoS attack on Yandex.
Latvian network equipment manufacturer MikroTik has shared details on customers can secure and clean routers enslaved by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet over the summer. "As far as we have seen, these attacks use the same routers that were compromised in 2018, when MikroTik RouterOS had a vulnerability, that was quickly patched," a MicroTik spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
A chain of vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers could allow an attacker to gain a backdoor. The chain starts with DNS poisoning, goes on to downgrading the installed version of MikroTik's RouterOS...
Despite having nearly a year to address the vulnerability, no patch is available for a critical vulnerability, leaving network admins no alternative to disabling IPv6 support.
Vigilante Hacker Is Killing Unpatched Routers' Remote Administration AbilityCryptojackers and eavesdroppers are continuing to exploit a one-time zero-day flaw in unpatched MikroTik routers,...
MikroTik. Stupid name. Stupid bugs. Get those fixes If you haven't installed a batch of patches for bugs in your MikroTik routers – and two thirds of owners apparently haven't – then stiffen the...
A known vulnerability in MikroTik routers is potentially far more dangerous than previously thought. A cybersecurity researcher from Tenable Research has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) RCE...
If you own a MikroTik router and you haven’t updated its RouterOS in the last month, you should do so now: Tenable Research has released details about four vulnerabilities they found in the OS,...
Researchers say a medium severity bug should now be rated critical because of a new hack technique that allows for remote code execution on MikroTik edge and consumer routers.
Attackers Continue To Meddle With Hundreds Of Thousands Of MikroTik RoutersUnknown attackers are intercepting every piece of data handled by more than 7,500 routers made by MikroTik, while also...