In March, routers from Latvian manufacturer MikroTik were hit by an advanced threat dubbed Operation Slingshot. The company patched for the threat, but now a new cryptomining attack has hit MikroTik ...

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.

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 ...

Using a known vulnerability, the threat actor is listening to a variety of ports. A full 7,500+ MikroTik routers are forwarding their owners’ traffic to eavesdropping cybercriminals – while 239,000 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...