reader comments 39 with Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command and control servers maintained by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. A firmware implant, revealed in a write-up from Check Point Research, contains a full-featured ..
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Enlarge (credit: Wikipedia) The FBI has seized a key domain used to infect more than 500,000 home and small-office routers in a move that significantly frustrates a months-long attack that agents say was carried out by the Russian government, The Daily Beast reported late Wednesday. The takedown stems from an investigation that started no later ..