I have an ISP generic ONT receiving the fiber and configured with the provided SLID during the installation. This device (ISP ONT) is connected on my fresh Mikrotik Router (hEX S), where it divides ...

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 ...

Up to 900,00 MikroTik routers — a popular target for threat actors including nation-state groups — may be open to attack via a privilege escalation vulnerability in the RouterOS operating system. The ...

Tens of thousands of MikroTik and Ubiquiti routers are currently available online, featuring alarmistic hostnames such as "HACKED FTP server," "HACKED-ROUTER-HELP-SOS-WAS-MFWORM-INFECTED," or ...

According to Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin, on July 31, a surge in Coinhive activity was detected which indicated that a malicious cryptocurrency mining operation was underway. In a blog post, the ...

Hacker Using MikroTik Routers to Eavesdrop on Internet Traffic The hacker has been actively forwarding the network traffic from over 7,500 vulnerable MikroTik routers around the globe, but the ...

As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in ...

From September 19 to October 5, security firm Avast found itself blocking malicious cryptomining URLs, which were related to infected networks with MikroTik gateways, over 22.4 million times. This ...

Microsoft released a scanner that detects MikroTik routers hacked by the TrickBot gang to act as proxies for command and control servers. TrickBot is a malware botnet distributed via phishing emails ...

A Russian-speaking grey-hat hacker is breaking into people's MikroTik routers and patching devices so they can't be abused by cryptojackers, botnet herders, or other cyber-criminals, ZDNet has learned ...