Apparently tens of thousands of home routers are infected with malware being used by hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Security firm Incapsula discovered the router-based botnet while investigating a series of DDoS attacks against its customers that have been ongoing since December.
The firm’s researches tracked the malicious traffic to routers made by Ubiquiti Networks and distributed by Internet companies to their customers around the world. Those devices were found to have DDoS malware installed on them, the researchers said in a report last week.
Hacked routers exposed, majority in Thailand
The researchers say that the routers were not hacked through firmware vulnerability, but mainly because they were deployed in an insecure way – with their management interfaces exposed to the Internet via SSH and HTTP with default logins and passwords.
They found scripts running on the devices designed to scan the Internet for other routers that could also be accessed over the SSH protocol with default logins.
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