13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks
13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks
thehackernews.com 13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks
A 13,000-router MikroTik botnet bypasses SPF protections on 20,000 domains, fueling malware, DDoS, and phishing.
A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices. The activity "take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques," Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical report published last week. "This
