It’s finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/19/home_router_insecurity/

It is not just IoT devices that are hacked en masse. Home routers are hit also with their flaws.

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Router protection for MikroTik users
    https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/how-to-protect-mikrotik-from-meris-botnet/41972/
    Recent large-scale DDoS attacks using a new botnet called Mris peaked at almost 22 million requests per second. According to Qrator research, MikroTik’s network devices generated a fair share of the botnet’s traffic. Having analyzed the situation, MikroTik experts found no new vulnerabilities in the company’s routers; however, old ones may still pose a threat. Therefore, to ensure your router has not joined the Mris botnet (or any other botnet, for that matter), you need to follow a few recommendations.

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