A threat actor tracked as Water Barghest has compromised over 20,000 IoT devices and monetizes them as residential proxies.

But shopping for your own router might be one of the most confounding ... For instance, the first widely used for Wi-Fi was released in 1999 and called 802.11b; shortly after that came 802.11a ...

Most people never think about routers, network cables ... to the internet service provider on its own. QoS can also be used to prioritize certain types of traffic. Most typical are online games ...

Cisco has fixed a maximum severity vulnerability that allows attackers to run commands with root privileges on vulnerable Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points that provide ...

As reported by Ars Technica, hackers working for the Chinese government used a botnet — consisting mainly of TP-Link routers, with over 16,000 compromised devices, from around the world — to ...

A covert Chinese botnet, relying on compromised TP-Link routers, commits stealthy password-spraying attacks, only attempting to access accounts once per day. This malicious operation was discovered in ...

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Using compromised devices as part of a botnet also underscores the importance of securing IoT devices and regularly updating firmware on routers and ... that may be used by one or more threat ...

Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras ... reports said that Botnet-7777 was being used to skillfully perform password spraying ...

The botnet's name is a reference to the fact that the routers are infected with a backdoor that listens on TCP port 7777 to facilitate remote access. Sekoia told The Hacker News in September 2024 that ...