{"id":3211,"date":"2025-01-21T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-botnet-for-malspam-and-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:13:33","slug":"13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-botnet-for-malspam-and-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-botnet-for-malspam-and-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices.<br \/>\nThe activity &#8220;take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques,&#8221; Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical report published last week. &#8220;This\u00a0A global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices.<br \/>\nThe activity &#8220;take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques,&#8221; Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical report published last week. &#8220;This\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA global network of about 13,000 hijacked Mikrotik routers has been employed as a botnet to propagate malware via spam campaigns, the latest addition to a list of botnets powered by MikroTik devices. The activity &#8220;take[s] advantage of misconfigured DNS records to pass email protection techniques,&#8221; Infoblox security researcher David Brunsdon said in a technical&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-botnet-for-malspam-and-cyberattacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}