According to Trustwave researcher Simon Kenin, on July 31, a surge in Coinhive activity was detected which indicated that a malicious cryptocurrency mining operation was underway. In a blog post, the ...

In yet another case of unpatched consumer devices representing a threat to the security and privacy of users, thousands of MikroTik have been uncovered which are eavesdropping on users. The routers ...

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.

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 ...

Hacker Using MikroTik Routers to Eavesdrop on Internet Traffic The hacker has been actively forwarding the network traffic from over 7,500 vulnerable MikroTik routers around the globe, but the ...

200K MikroTik Routers Exploited to Serve Cryptocurrency Miner The hacker has been using a security flaw in MikroTik routers to secretly slip a cryptocurrency miner into computers that connect to them.

From September 19 to October 5, security firm Avast found itself blocking malicious cryptomining URLs, which were related to infected networks with MikroTik gateways, over 22.4 million times. This ...

I have an ISP generic ONT receiving the fiber and configured with the provided SLID during the installation. This device (ISP ONT) is connected on my fresh Mikrotik Router (hEX S), where it divides ...

Latvian network equipment manufacturer MikroTik has shared details on how customers can secure and clean routers compromised by the massive Mēris DDoS botnet over the summer. "As far as we have seen, ...