Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Routers
Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Routers
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 25, 20187m 19s
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Show Notes
Home routers have become the rats to hackers' bubonic plague: An easily infected, untreated and ubiquitous population in which dangerous digital attacks can spread. Now security researchers are warning that one group of sophisticated hackers has amassed a collection of malware-infected routers that could be used as a powerful tool to spread havoc across the internet, or simply triggered to implode networks across the world.
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