The national security risks posed by routers, modems and similar devices produced by U.S. adversaries would be the subject of a new federal study under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Monday. The Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security (ROUTERS) Act from Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., is aimed…
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New backdoor discovered that specifically targets Juniper routers
Researchers at Black Lotus Labs have uncovered an operation where a back door is dropped onto enterprise-grade Juniper Networks routers and listens for specific network signals, known as “magic packets,” to execute malicious commands. The campaign, which researchers at the cybersecurity wing of Lumen Technologies refer to as “J-Magic,” was active between mid-2023 and mid-2024.…
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Thousands of industrial routers vulnerable to command injection flaw
Thousands of industrial routers from a Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer are vulnerable to a post-authentication vulnerability, with indications it is already being exploited in the wild to infect devices with Mirai malware. On Dec. 27, VulnCheck detailed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856, wherein an attacker can leverage default credentials in Four-Faith F3x24 and F3x36 routers…