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Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2017
A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, around 100,000 IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours

A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, experts observed around 100K IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours searching for flawed ZyXEL PK5001Z routers. According to Li Fengpei, a security researcher with Qihoo 360 Netlab, the publication of the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code in a public vulnerabilities database is the root cause of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2017
Hacker BestBuy pleads guilty to hijacking more than 900k Deutsche Telekom routers

The hacker BestBuy pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom The notorious hacker BestBuy, also known as Popopret, pleaded guilty in court on Friday to hijacking more than 900,000 routers from the network of Deutsche Telekom. The 29-year-old man, whom name wasn’t revealed by authorities. used a custom version of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2017
UK police arrested the alleged mastermind of the MIRAI attack on Deutsche Telekom

The prosecutor’s office in Cologne and the Federal Criminal Police Office have arrested the alleged mastermind of the MIRAI attack on Deutsche Telekom The agents at the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) have a man that is suspected to be involved with the massive attack on Deutsche Telekom that affected more than 900k routers in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2016
More than 900k routers of Deutsche Telekom German users went offline

Deutsche Telekom confirmed that more than 900,000 routers began to have serious problems connectivity problems due to a cyber attack. More than 900,000 routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany were not able to connect to the Internet due to an alleged cyber-attack. The affected routers were used by the Deutsche Telekom customers also […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2014
Treasure Map – Fiveeyes tap into German telco networks to map end devices

Documents leaked by Snowden reveal the existence of the Treasure Map program run by FiveEyes Intelligence agencies to control the global network. Treasure Map is the name of the last program of intelligence revealed by documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Treasure Map is a program to map every device exposed on the Internet, […]