Several models of Netgear routers are affected by a publicly disclosed vulnerability that could allow hackers to take them over. An exploit for the vulnerability was published Friday by a researcher who uses the online handle Acew0rm. He claims that he reported the flaw to Netgear in August, but didn’t hear back. Read More
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Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia. The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications company. The attacks peaked at 3.2 million packets per second (Mpps) and the longest attack lasted […]
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2016
Starting from yesterday, many DSL customers in Germany were reporting problems with their routers, which weren’t able to connect to their ISP anymore or that the internet connection was very weak. Today we saw news, that a malicious attack could be the reason for this widespread problem.
Category Network security
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