- The FBI report warns about the risk aimed at obsolete routers
- Numerous models have known vulnerabilities and are no longer compatible.
- The FBI states that computer pirates are assimilating the routers in two botnets
Cybercriminals point to ancient and obsolete routers that are no longer supported by their suppliers, the FBI warned.
The agency pointed out how computer pirates are exploiting non -flickering vulnerabilities known to implement malware in such devices, assimilating them to botnets that are then used for attacks, or are rented as representation services to other criminals.
These devices are being attacked to be taken to 5Socks and any next network, two services that did not start as malicious, but ended up being kidnapped by criminals.
Chinese threat
5Socks is a proxy service that offers a large group of rotating proxies 5 and HTTPs proxies. Its main use case was the web scraping, anonymity and the omission of geostrictions.
Anyone, on the other hand, is announced as a Proxy HTTP/HTTPS and open source tool designed to purify and modify real -time web traffic. It was often used by developers and testers to intercept and analyze applications.
The FBI did not explain which groups of threat actors were abusing the two services, but he mentioned that the routers were being attacked by “Chinese actors” interested in “establishing botnets to hide piracy in American critical infrastructures.”
According to the report, devices currently vulnerable to commitment include a series of Linksys and Cisco models:
E1200
E2500
E1000
E4200
E1500
E300
E3200
WRT320N
E1550
WRT610N
E100
M100
WRT310N
The agency urged all users to disconnect and replace the obsolete equipment as soon as possible. If they cannot do that, at least they must disable the characteristics of the remote administration and restart the affected devices to minimize the possibilities of committing.
The routers, being the entrance door of all Internet traffic on a network, are the first and most common objective in a cyber attack.
Through Bleepingcomputer
