The powerful devices leveraged by the Meris botnet have weaknesses that make them easy to exploit, yet complex for organizations to track and secure, researchers said. The routers leveraged by the ...

For years, malicious hackers have been hacking large fleets of MikroTik routers and conscripting them into Trickbot, one of the Internet’s most destructive botnets. Now, Microsoft has finally figured ...

Microsoft has revealed how the Trickbot trojan botnet has been using compromised MikroTik routers for stealthy communications with infected PCs. Trickbot, known for stealing banking credentials and ...

Since exploit code for CVE-2018-14847 became publicly available, miscreants have launched attacks against MikroTik routers. Thousands of unpatched devices are mining for cryptocurrency at the moment.

Microsoft released a scanner that detects MikroTik routers hacked by the TrickBot gang to act as proxies for command and control servers. TrickBot is a malware botnet distributed via phishing emails ...

Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, has been compromising consumer-grade TP-Link and MikroTik routers to intercept Microsoft Outlook login credentials, according to coordinated warnings ...

A Russian-speaking grey-hat hacker is breaking into people's MikroTik routers and patching devices so they can't be abused by cryptojackers, botnet herders, or other cyber-criminals, ZDNet has learned ...

Up to 900,00 MikroTik routers — a popular target for threat actors including nation-state groups — may be open to attack via a privilege escalation vulnerability in the RouterOS operating system. The ...

TrickBot is a trojan computer virus that currently breaches Microsoft windows and other operating systems. The hacking group behind this malware uses it to conduct bank account thefts by stealing ...

Security experts have warned that hundreds of thousands of routers produced by Latvian networking equipment maker MikroTik are vulnerable to a critical bug which could enable attackers to remotely ...