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Fraud Alert

Cyber Criminal Services Target End-of-Life Routers to Launch Attacks and Hide Their Activities

Cyber Criminal Services Target End-of-Life Routers to Launch Attacks and Hide Their Activities

TLP:CLEAR

Summary

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with SSocks and Anyproxy cyber criminal services’ targeting malware that affects end-of-life (EOL) routers. Threat actors exploit known vulnerabilities to compromise EOL routers, install malware, and use the routers in a botnet they control to launch coordinated attacks or sell access to the devices as proxy services. The FBI recommends users replace compromised devices with newer models or prevent infection by disabling remote administration and rebooting the router.

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TLP:CLEAR

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