14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  14,000 sounds like a big number, until you realise that there’s many millions of routers. Asus is not known for backbone routing, so while this might be happening, you have to ask yourself, is this the biggest threat across the internet, or is this article intended to serve another interest?

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How about neither?

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    • TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are you sure? Those seem like the only two options to me. Clearly the purpose of the article is to convince people to feed their children to the rich.

      Seriously, I’ve seen an increase in these weirdly extremist comments recently. One would have to wonder if they are the ones serving another’s interests.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well reading the article, it says the botnet is infecting 14,000 routers a day. Not that there are only 14k infected routers in the world.

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a misreading of what it means. The botnet averages 14,000 routers + IoT devices a day, not new devices per day. Every day, devices cycle in and out of these botnets, so their count is always in flux.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It says both things

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You have to ask yourself, is this comment intended to serve another interest?

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  KadNap is a sophisticated peer-to-peer design based on Kademlia, a network structure that uses distributed hash tables to conceal the IP addresses of command-and-control servers

  How I would love to have enough Networking knowledge to be able to dismantle this system.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kademlia

    Holy shit I hadn’t read that name since the eMule days

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