TechnologyEnglish · 6 months ago

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

arstechnica.com

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Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

arstechnica.com

TechnologyEnglish · 6 months ago

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An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.

An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.

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I wonder why? Did someone just hate the ISP or was this a state actor. For all we know this could of been the trial run
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  600k is considered a trial run?
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    Compared to the population of the US that’s small. Imagine if everyones internet stopped working
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  Could be an extortion scheme of some kind.

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