For years, malicious hackers have been hacking large fleets of MikroTik routers and conscripting them into Trickbot, one of the Internet’s most destructive botnets. Now, Microsoft has finally figured ...

The powerful devices leveraged by the Meris botnet have weaknesses that make them easy to exploit, yet complex for organizations to track and secure, researchers said. The routers leveraged by the ...

Security researchers from Eclypsium have developed a tool that enterprise administrators can use to scan their corporate networks or their remote employees’ home networks for unpatched MikroTik ...

Using a known vulnerability, the threat actor is listening to a variety of ports. A full 7,500+ MikroTik routers are forwarding their owners’ traffic to eavesdropping cybercriminals – while 239,000 ...

Latvian network equipment manufacturer MikroTik has shared details on how customers can secure and clean routers compromised by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet over the summer. "As far as we have seen, ...

Attackers compromising MikroTik routers have configured the devices to forward network traffic to a handful of IP addresses under their control. Cybercriminals gained access to the devices by ...

The goal: to install cryptocurrency miners on any computers connected to them. The hacker has been targeting a security flaw that can let you gain remote administrative access to the devices, ...

In my professional capacity I perform several tasks. One involves tracking and collecting indicators of compromise (IoC) used to identify malware campaigns. Another involves tracking incidents ...

Researchers at China’s Netlab 360 have discovered that thousands of routers manufactured by the Latvian company MikroTik have been compromised by malware attacking a vulnerability revealed April.

Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The attack, which is still ...