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Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere
How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet.
In some cases, the coexistence is peaceful, as financially motivated hackers provide spies with access to already compromised routers in exchange for a fee, researchers from security firm Trend Micro reported Wednesday. “Cybercriminals and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors share a common interest in proxy anonymization layers and Virtual Private Network (VPN) nodes to hide traces of their presence and make detection of malicious activities more difficult,” Trend Micro researchers Feike Hacquebord and Fernando Merces wrote. Advertisement The Trend Micro researchers said that Pawn Storm was using the hijacked botnet to proxy (1) logins that used stolen account credentials and (2) attacks that exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange that went unfixed until March 2023.
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