Global Botnet Dismantled as Four Indicted in $46 Million Cybercrime Scheme

End-of-life router botnet shut, 4 'foreign hackers' charged

: The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace

FBI and Dutch police seize and shut down botnet of hacked routers

U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of vulnerable internet-connected devices.

Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks.

FBI warns outdated routers are being hacked and hijacked for criminal purposes

Multiple Linksys and Cisco models mentioned

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Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic. In a FLASH bulletin […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post End-of-life router bo…

Police Dismantles Botnet Selling Hacked Routers As Residential Proxies

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department also indicted three Russian nationals (Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin) and a Kazakhstani (Dmitriy Rubtsov) for…