Attackers Steal E-Mails, Info from OpenWrt Forum

The forum supporting the community for OpenWrt suffered a security breach over the weekend, giving hackers access to e-mail addresses, user handles and additional private forum user information. Those that maintain the forum for the Linux-based open-source firmware said the forum was breached in...

Security Advisory 2021-01-17-1 - OpenWrt forum break-in on 16-Jan-2021

DESCRIPTION Around 0400 GMT on 16 Jan 2021, an administrator account on the OpenWrt forum https://forum.openwrt.org was breached. It is not known how the account was accessed: the account had a good password, but did not have two-factor authentication enabled. The intruder was able to download a...