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A new malware strain has been found covertly targeting small office/home office (SOHO) routers for more than two years, infiltrating over 70,000 devices and creating a botnet with 40,000 nodes spanning 20 countries. Lumen Black Lotus Labs has dubbed the malware AVrecon, making it the third such strain to focus on SOHO routers after ZuoRAT […]
Taiwanese company ASUS on Monday released firmware updates to address, among other issues, nine security bugs impacting a wide range of router models. Of the nine security flaws, two are rated Critical and six are rated High in severity. One vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis. The list of impacted products are GT6, GT-AXE16000, GT-AX11000 PRO, […]
Cisco has warned of two security vulnerabilities affecting end-of-life (EoL) Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers that it said will not be fixed, even as it acknowledged the public availability of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. The issues are rooted in the router’s web-based management interface, enabling a remote adversary to sidestep authentication or execute […]
Networking equipment company Netgear has released patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system. Traced as CVE-2021-40847 (CVSS score: 8.1), the security weakness impacts the following models – R6400v2 (fixed in firmware version 1.0.4.120) R6700 (fixed in […]
Despite being one of the world’s leading technology companies, Cisco remains vulnerable to some security flaws in its various products. This time, digital forensics specialists reported the finding of a serious vulnerability in the company’s devices running the IOS XE operating system. Tracked as CVE-2019-12643, this is a critical vulnerability present in the REST API […]
The measures were criticized by specialist organizations and software developers Last week, in an attempt to address the security of broadband routers, the German government issued some suggestions on minimum standards, receiving immediate criticism of the scope of its proposals. According to specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the BSI, the […]
The BHU WiFi uRouter, manufactured and sold in China, looks great – and it contains multiple critical vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated attacker could bypass authentication, access sensitive information stored in its system logs, and in the worst case, execute OS commands on the router with root privileges. In addition, the uRouter ships with hidden users, SSH […]