TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.

L4sBot@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.

Raltoid@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Me and a buddy once set up a script to change a peoples wifi name to “Call your ISP”. After they refused to believe us when we told them they had misconfigured things(anyone on the same subnet could use the default password to access the ISP admin part of their modem/router combo they sent out)…

TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.

TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.

A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers