Security News

100,000 home routers recruited to spread Brazilian hacking scam
2018-10-02 06:30

GhostDNS in the machine A DNSchanger-like attack first spotted in August on D-Link routers in Brazil has expanded to affect more than 70 different devices and more than 100,000 individual piece of kit.…

GhostDNS: New DNS Changer Botnet Hijacked Over 100,000 Routers
2018-10-01 13:03

Chinese cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a widespread, ongoing malware campaign that has already hijacked over 100,000 home routers and modified their DNS settings to hack users with...

Aerohive expands cloud-managed SD-WAN portfolio with new XR600P branch router
2018-09-28 01:00

Aerohive Networks announced its XR600P SD-WAN branch router is now shipping. The XR600P is the latest addition to Aerohive’s growing SD-WAN portfolio, designed to simplify the management,...

VPNFilter Router Malware Adds 7 New Network Exploitation Modules
2018-09-27 10:33

Security researchers have discovered even more dangerous capabilities in VPNFilter—the highly sophisticated multi-stage malware that infected 500,000 routers worldwide in May this year, making it...

MikroTik Routers Targeted In Data Eavesdropping Scheme
2018-09-06 10:48

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...

Take a pinch of autofill, mix in HTTP, and bake on a Wi-Fi admin page: Quirky way to swipe a victim's router password
2018-09-06 05:02

If they fall for this social-engineering trick, of course Vid Beware using your web browser's autofill feature to log into your broadband router via Wi-Fi. If the login attempt is sent over...

Mikrotik routers pwned en masse and send network data to mysterious server
2018-09-04 20:50

Researchers uncover botnet pouncing on security holes More than 7,500 Mikrotik routers have been compromised with malware that logs and transmits network traffic data to an unknown control server.…

Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hijacked for Eavesdropping
2018-09-04 18:34

Using a known vulnerability, the threat actor is listening to a variety of ports.

Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hacked to Eavesdrop On Network Traffic
2018-09-04 10:03

Last month we reported about a widespread crypto-mining malware campaign that hijacked over 200,000 MikroTik routers using a previously disclosed vulnerability revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks....

TP-Link introduces AC2600 Wi-Fi router with enhanced security
2018-08-28 21:22

TP-Link announced the upcoming launch of the Archer C2700, a next level AC2600 Dual-Band WiFi Router that utilizes Intel technology to provide WiFi at speeds up to 1733Mbps on the 5GHz band and...