Comment on Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”
spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In an advisory of its own, Cisco said the threat actors are compromising the devices after acquiring administrative credentials and that there’s no indication they are exploiting vulnerabilities.
If they aren’t exploiting vulnerabilities (and this is all because of mishandling of admin creds) then why are only Cisco routers being targeted?
Darkard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are loadi g in modified firmware apparently. Will be specific to Cisco hardware.
It’s all kinda irrelevant though. If they managed to figure out your weak ass admin creds and you left your router open to access with no ACLs then installing some sneaky firmware is the least of your worries
spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
True, I wonder how many of these admin creds were on internal wikis or something like user: admin password: admin123
naticus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did you get my password? Please delete this.
spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
12345? That’s the combination to my luggage