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1mo ago

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.

13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks

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1mo ago

13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks

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1mo ago

13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks

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Looks to stem from default creds and SPF+all, both of which are amateur hour. In their defense, devices should not allow keeping default creds, and SPF should have never implemented the +all tag. Still, though. It's 2025, not 2005. They should have known.