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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks (arstechnica.com)

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you don't use Microsoft Azure cloud services then it shouldn't matter, for now. Might want to just avoid running those for a little while.

The article also says:

It’s unclear precisely how the compromised botnet devices are being initially infected. Whatever the cause, once devices are exploited, the threat actors often take the following actions:

Download Telnet binary from a remote File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server

Download xlogin backdoor binary from a remote FTP server

Utilize the downloaded Telnet and xlogin binaries to start an access-controlled command shell on TCP port 7777

Connect and authenticate to the xlogin backdoor listening on TCP port 7777

Download a SOCKS5 server binary to router

Start SOCKS5 server on TCP port 11288.

So maybe setting up some firewall rules could also help prevent further problems.