The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been insufficient. A research team at Imperva Incapsula has found that the a variant of the Mirai worm, which it calls […]
The researcher who discovered that the customer routers of British ISP TalkTalk were under attack has found that the problems didn’t end there. Pen Test Partners’ Ken Munro says that not only were tens of thousands of routers attacked with the Mirai worm, but they were also made to disclose their SSID (commonly known as the Network […]
The BBC is reporting that 100,00 customers of the British ISPs Talk Talk and Post Office have been knocked offline by an attack on their routers by a modified form of the Mirai worm. This is the same problem that recently affected the German ISP Deutsche Telekom which cause over 900,000 of its customers to lose […]