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Huge cyber attack under way - 2.8 million IPs being used to target VPN devices
Devices across the world are being abused
Threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation warned about the ongoing attack on X, noting someone is currently using roughly 2.8 million different IP addresses to try and guess the passwords for VPNs and similar devices built by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti, SonicWall, and others. To conduct the attack, the threat actors are using MikroTik, Huawei, Cisco, Boa, and ZTE routers and other internet-connected devices, likely compromised with malware, or broken into themselves, thanks to weak passwords. Brute-force attacks are usually successful against devices protected with poor passwords (those that don’t have a strong combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special symbols).
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