Most consumers pay as much attention to routers as they do to doorknobs. That’s not the case with Net marauders. They’re finding the devices ripe targets for mischief. “We’ve seen a big increase in malware designed for home routers,” said Incapsula researcher Ofer Gayer. “Every week, we see a new vulnerability in a vendor’s routers,” he said. “They’re low-hanging fruit if you’re a hacker. They’re a very soft target.” Home routers are the soft underbelly of the Internet, observed Andrew Conway, a threat researcher at Cloudmark.
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Routers Becoming Juicy Targets for Hackers
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. June 18, 2015 11:34 AMMost consumers pay as much attention to routers as they do to doorknobs. That’s not the case with Net marauders. They’re finding the devices ripe targets for mischief. “We’ve seen a big increase in malware designed for home routers,” said Incapsula researcher Ofer Gayer. “Every week, we see a new vulnerability in a vendor’s routers,” he said. “They’re low-hanging fruit if you’re a hacker. They’re a very soft target.” Home routers are the soft underbelly of the Internet, observed Andrew Conway, a threat researcher at Cloudmark.