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Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
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Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”::The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.

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[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 years ago

True, I wonder how many of these admin creds were on internal wikis or something like user: admin password: admin123