Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span:
An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.
One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all other attempts to revive them.
Wow, someone deployed malware in October of 2023 which bricked 600,000 Internet routers -- owned by a SINGLE ISP.
"over 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers were taken offline belonging to a single internet service provider (ISP). The incident took place over a 72-hour period between October 25-27, rendered the infected devices permanently inoperable, and required a hardware-based replacement."
A new threat actor known as #LilacSquid is using several different pieces of #malware to silently infiltrate networks and steal sensitive data. Read more about this group and the TTPs they share with some North Korean state-sponsored actors https://blog.talosintelligence.com/lilacsquid/
Fast 150.000 Android-Smartphones mit Banking-#Trojaner infiziert
In den vergangenen Monaten wurden einer neuen Untersuchung zufolge mehr als fünf Millionen Android-Smartphones mit #Malware infiziert. Darunter ist auch ein äußerst gefährlicher Banking-Trojaner.
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