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Key takeaways Cyber Risk: Older routers from the late 2000s and early 2010s are vulnerable to attacks because they no longer receive software updates or security patches, making them easy targets for cybercriminals. Exploitation Methods: Attackers exploit remote administration flaws to install malware, gain root access, and turn routers into botnets or proxy servers. Affected …
New research by a top telecommunications company has revealed that more than 600,000 internet routers were rendered useless by an enormous cyber attack. According to the telecommunications company’s blog post, the attack happened in November 2023 and took more than 600,000 routers offline. Lumen’s research team discovered the attackers installed malicious software that interrupted internet …
a different version and provider Scientists turn WiFi routers into ‘cameras’ that can see people through walls Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have repurposed a common piece of tech present in virtually every household to function as a tracking technology. By utilizing WiFi routers, they have developed a method for detecting the three-dimensional shape and …