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Critical MikroTik RouterOS Vulnerability Exposes Over Half a Million Devices to Hacking

A severe privilege escalation issue impacting MikroTik RouterOS could be weaponized by remote malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and seize full control of vulnerable devices. Cataloged as CVE-2023-30799 (CVSS score: 9.1), the shortcoming is expected to put approximately 500,000 and 900,000 RouterOS systems at risk of exploitation via their web and/or Winbox interfaces, respectively, […]

Over 300,000 MikroTik Devices Found Vulnerable to Remote Hacking Bugs

At least 300,000 IP addresses associated with MikroTik devices have been found vulnerable to multiple remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities that have since been patched by the popular supplier of routers and wireless ISP devices. The most affected devices are located in China, Brazil, Russia, Italy, Indonesia, with the U.S. coming in at number eight, cybersecurity […]

A critical vulnerability in MikroTik routers allow hackers to deploy DoS attacks

Specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute, reported the emergence of a critical vulnerability in some of the MikroTik company routers; according to the reports, the vulnerability would allow malicious hackers to deploy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against vulnerable devices, forcing their reboot.   MikroTik is a provider of […]

MikroTik router vulnerability lets hackers bypass firewall to load malware undetected

Tenable Research’s cybersecurity researcher has released “By The way,” which is a new PoC (proof-of-concept) RCE attack after identifying a new attack method to exploit an already discovered vulnerability in MikroTik routers. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-14847, is an old directory traversal flaw, which was patched the same day it was detected in April, 2018. […]