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As previously exposed, routers might be used by threat actors as efficient locations to plant malware, often for cyberespionage. Lumen's Black Lotus Labs has exposed new malware targeting routers in a campaign named Hiatus by the researchers.

If you're still running post-support DrayTek Vigor routers it may be time to junk them, or come up with some other workaround, as a cunning malware variant is setting up shop in the kit. The operators behind the Hiatus malware campaign are hijacking DrayTek Vigor router models 2960 and 3900 powered by MIPS, i386 and Arm-based processors to in turn attack businesses in North and Latin America as well as in Europe, according to researchers with Lumen's Black Lotus Labs threat intelligence unit.

An unknown threat actor has discreetly compromised business-grade DrayTek routers in Europe, Latin and North America, equipping them with a remote access trojan and a packet capturing program. "The impacted models are high-bandwidth routers that can support VPN connections for hundreds of remote workers and offer ideal capacity for the average, medium-sized business. We suspect the actor infects targets of interest for data collection, and targets of opportunity for the purpose of establishing a covert proxy network," Lumen researchers have posited.

An ongoing hacking campaign called 'Hiatus' targets DrayTek Vigor router models 2960 and 3900 to steal data from victims and build a covert proxy network. DrayTek Vigor devices are business-class VPN routers used by small to medium-size organizations for remote connectivity to corporate networks.

An ongoing hacking campaign called 'Hiatus' targets DrayTek Vigor router models 2960 and 3900 to steal data from victims and build a covert proxy network. DrayTek Vigor devices are business-class VPN routers used by small to medium-size organizations for remote connectivity to corporate networks.

A never-before-seen complex malware is targeting business-grade routers to covertly spy on victims in Latin America, Europe, and North America at least since July 2022. Given that the impacted devices are high-bandwidth routers that can simultaneously support hundreds of VPN connections, it's being suspected that the goal is to spy on targets and establish a stealthy proxy network.

Microsoft says this week's five-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by a router IP address change that led to packet forwarding issues between all other routers in its Wide Area Network. Redmond said at the time that the outage resulted from DNS and WAN networking configuration issues caused by a WAN update and that users across all regions serviced by the impacted infrastructure were having problems accessing the affected Microsoft 365 services.

Over 19,000 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet are exposed to attacks targeting a remote command execution exploit chain. By chaining two security flaws disclosed last week, threat actors can bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers.

Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.

The Roaming Mantis malware distribution campaign has updated its Android malware to include a DNS changer that modifies DNS settings on vulnerable WiFi routers to spread the infection to other devices. O/XLoader Android malware that detects vulnerable WiFi routers based on their model and changes their DNS. The malware then creates an HTTP request to hijack a vulnerable WiFi router's DNS settings, causing connected devices to be rerouted to malicious web pages hosting phishing forms or dropping Android malware.