Security News

U.S. Disrupts Russian Botnet of 500,000 Hacked Routers
2018-05-24 02:30

The US Justice Department said Wednesday that it had seized an internet domain that directed a dangerous botnet of a half-million infected home and office network routers, controlled by hackers...

Advanced VPNFilter malware menacing routers worldwide
2018-05-23 20:05

Cisco's Talos team says 500k already pwned and leaking data A newly-disclosed malware infection has compromised more than 500,000 home and small office routers and NAS boxes.…

VPNFilter Malware Infects 500k Routers Including Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR
2018-05-23 16:48

Researchers warn of malware infecting 500,000 popular routers in a campaign mostly targeting the Ukraine, but also 54 other countries.

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
2018-05-23 16:03

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked...

VPNFilter – is a malware timebomb lurking on your router?
2018-05-23 13:55

A Cisco paper reports on zombie malware that has apparently infected more than half-a-million home routers.

Hackers are exploiting a new zero-day flaw in GPON routers
2018-05-23 09:32

Even after being aware of various active cyber attacks against the GPON Wi-Fi routers, if you haven't yet taken them off the Internet, then be careful—because a new botnet has joined the GPON...

TalkTalk data can Walk Walk thanks to four year-old router flaw
2018-05-22 20:08

Researcher says Wi-Fi passwords left wide open A years-old security flaw could be putting the security of some UK Wi-Fi networks at risk.…

Comcast Patches Router Bug That Leaked Some Wi-Fi Passwords
2018-05-22 16:09

A bug in Comcast’s activation website for its Xfinity routers leaked sensitive customer data.

More than 800K DrayTek routers vulnerable to DNS reprogramming attack
2018-05-22 15:57

Nearly all of the 800,000+ DrayTek routers currently in operation are subject to an exploit allowing an attacker to change its DNS settings. Update your firmware now.

Botnets Target Zero-Days in GPON Routers
2018-05-22 12:51

Two unpatched vulnerabilities in Dasan’s Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) routers are being exploited by Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, security researchers warn. read more