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600,000 routers were bricked in a single cyberattack
And all targeting a single ISP, according to a new report.
Windstream, which has a service area covering many rural or underserved communities, declined The Verge ’s request for comment. The malicious firmware package that deleted parts of the operational code on impacted routers was identified as “Chalubo,” a commodity remote access trojan. It’s unclear how the firmware was shipped to customers — whether through an unknown exploit, weak credentials, or access to administrative tools — or who was behind the attack that the researchers called “a deliberate act intended to cause an outage.”
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