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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No doubt, and I would really love someone with more knowledge than me to poke into why that was going on (*edit: for clarity, this behaviour stopped after installing OpenWRT and is the stock Mi firmware that causes this)

https://files.catbox.moe/2i5ekl.jpg

I remember finding this thread where someone said they replaced their entire networking equipment

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch

My router is this model for anyone wanting to nosey

https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/ax3600