Mysterious Hack Destroyed 600,000 Internet Routers

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Juniper Support Portal Exposed Customer Device Info

Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially sensitive information tied to customer products, including which devices customers bought, as well as each products warranty status, service contracts and serial numbers. Juniper...

Sandworm APT Hunts for ASUS Routers with Cyclops Blink Botnet

The modular botnet known as Cyclops Blink, linked to the same advanced persistent threat APT behind the NotPetya wiper attacks, is expanding its device targeting to include ASUS routers. Further, it’s likely that the botnet’s purpose is far more sinister than the average Mirai-knockoff’s penchant...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Access Control List Implementation for Cisco 12000 Series Internet Router - Cisco Systems

Six vulnerabilities involving Access Control List ACL has been discovered in multiple releases of Cisco IOS Software Release for Cisco 12000 Series Internet Routers. Not all vulnerabilities are present in all IOS releases and only line cards based on the Engine 2 are affected by them. No other...

New Attack Locates Web Users Via XSS, Google Data

The security researcher who created the MySpace XSS worm in 2005 has developed a technique that enables an attacker to accurately locate a Web user with GPS coordinates, without using IP-based geolocation. Samy Kamkar, the author of the infamous Samy worm that spread through MySpace, on Monday...