DDoS Botnet Leverages Thousands of Insecure SOHO Routers

Small office and home office (SOHO) routers are an increasingly common target for cybercriminals, not because of any vulnerability, but because most routers are loosely managed and often deployed with default administrator credentials. A new report suggests that hackers are using large botnets of tens of thousands of insecure home and office-based routers to launch Distributed Denial-of-Service (

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