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 ...

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 ...

In March, routers from Latvian manufacturer MikroTik were hit by an advanced threat dubbed Operation Slingshot. The company patched for the threat, but now a new cryptomining attack has hit MikroTik ...

Researchers say a medium severity bug should now be rated critical because of a new hack technique that allows for remote code execution on MikroTik edge and consumer routers. A new hacking technique ...

200K MikroTik Routers Exploited to Serve Cryptocurrency Miner The hacker has been using a security flaw in MikroTik routers to secretly slip a cryptocurrency miner into computers that connect to them.

Approximately 300,000 MikroTik routers are vulnerable to critical vulnerabilities that malware botnets can exploit for cryptomining and DDoS attacks. MikroTik is a Latvian manufacturer of routers and ...

If you have a MikroTik router, make sure it is running the latest firmware, as security researchers discovered thousands of compromised MikroTik routers are sending traffic to nine attacker-controlled ...

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 ...

Once a new device has been infected with a Hajime bot, this new device also starts scanning to infect other MikroTik routers. It is worth mentioning that in the past, the Hajime IoT botnet was never ...

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 ...

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 ...

In yet another case of unpatched consumer devices representing a threat to the security and privacy of users, thousands of MikroTik have been uncovered which are eavesdropping on users. The routers ...