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 ...

The routers have been hijacked through the CVE-2018-14847 security vulnerability, a known bug which impacts the MikroTik RouterOS operating system. The vulnerability is present in Winbox ...

As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in ...

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 ...

Approximately 300,000 MikroTik routers are vulnerable to critical vulnerabilities that malware botnets can exploit for cryptomining and DDoS attacks. MikroTik is a Latvian manufacturer of routers ...

Researchers say a medium severity bug should now be rated critical because of a new hack technique that allows for remote code execution on MikroTik edge and consumer routers. A new hacking ...

MikroTik is a Latvian company that manufactures networking devices for the home, business and ISP markets around the world. These include routers, switches and wireless access points. What makes ...

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 ...

Anubhav detected over 7,300 defaced routers, which is about 1.3% of all MikroTik devices available online. The attacks caused some initial panic because nobody knew how they were taking place.

MikroTik routers are particularly popular in the developing world, where internet cafes remain common. And while Kaspersky detected the campaign's spyware on machines using consumer-grade ...