For years, malicious hackers have been hacking large fleets of MikroTik routers and conscripting them into Trickbot, one of the Internet’s most destructive botnets. Now, Microsoft has finally figured ...
The powerful devices leveraged by the Meris botnet have weaknesses that make them easy to exploit, yet complex for organizations to track and secure, researchers said. The routers leveraged by the ...
Our age is primarily online; we work and communicate with others through screens. That is why 5g sim cards exist; mobile networks might be slow. As a result, a Wireless network is required to go ...
Hacker Using MikroTik Routers to Eavesdrop on Internet Traffic The hacker has been actively forwarding the network traffic from over 7,500 vulnerable MikroTik routers around the globe, but the ...
Using a known vulnerability, the threat actor is listening to a variety of ports. A full 7,500+ MikroTik routers are forwarding their owners’ traffic to eavesdropping cybercriminals – while 239,000 ...
In March, routers from Latvian manufacturer MikroTik were hit by an advanced threat dubbed Operation Slingshot. The company patched for the threat, but now a new cryptomining attack has hit MikroTik ...
Microsoft released a scanner that detects MikroTik routers hacked by the TrickBot gang to act as proxies for command and control servers. TrickBot is a malware botnet distributed via phishing emails ...
Security researchers have unearthed a massive cryptojacking campaign that targets MikroTik routers and changes their configuration to inject a copy of the Coinhive in-browser cryptocurrency mining ...
According to Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin, on July 31, a surge in Coinhive activity was detected which indicated that a malicious cryptocurrency mining operation was underway. In a blog post, the ...
Security researchers from Eclypsium have developed a tool that enterprise administrators can use to scan their corporate networks or their remote employees’ home networks for unpatched MikroTik ...
As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in ...