TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.
TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.
www.zdnet.com A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.
Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.
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lol, reminds me of when I was at some random hotel in China and their router was clearly infested with malware that kept redirecting websites to random scammy websites. I guessed the router IP and used the default password for the router (probably why they got compromised) to update and patch it.
This person did it on a global scale
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