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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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[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose magic packets are not the packets for wake over lan, right? Because wol packages are commonly called magic packages too.

[–] cheet@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

From what I gather it's closer to a port knock than magic packets