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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks

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The botnet is being skillfully used to launch “highly evasive” password-spraying attacks.
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    The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.

    It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.

    The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.

    This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/

    It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.

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