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Hackers infect 500,000 consumer routers all over the world with malware
Hackers possibly working for an advanced nation have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command, researchers at Cisco warned Wednesday.
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Great in-depth article on the topic, with a list of targeted router brands and models. Scary that the article says "It's not yet clear if running the latest firmware and changing default passwords prevents infections in all cases."