{"id":1462,"date":"2025-01-22T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-html\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:01:30","slug":"13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by-html\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/01\/13000-mikrotik-routers-hijacked-by.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13,000 MikroTik Routers Hijacked by Botnet for Malspam and Cyberattacks A 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}