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Germany Publishes New Broadband Router Security Guidelines

The German government Federal Office for Information Security published technical security guidelines for broadband routers commonly used in Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) environments. The new guideline provides recommendations to manufacturers on designing and implementing routing products with “adequate state-of-the -art security features.”

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Multiple TP-Link router vulnerabilities discovered

Cisco’s Talos security group disclosed four vulnerabilities that impact the TP-Link TL-R600VPN router. Several of the discovered bugs could lead to remote code execution.

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Slingshot APT targets routers

A highly sophisticated cyberespionage campaign dubbed Slingshot has been uncovered by Kaspersky security researchers. The campaign targets MikroTik routers to compromise them and use as a springboard to attack victims’ computers, as the company revealed in last week’s Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS).

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Satori malware made public

As Checkpoint researchers discovered earlier this week, a variant of Mirai malware dubbed Satori was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei home routers in the past several weeks. Now the Satori exploit code used in the attack is now public, Threatpost reports. Researchers further warn that the malicious code could quickly be used to launch common DDoS attacks

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Hackers exploit Huawei Routers RCE vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215)

Security researchers have discovered a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2017-17215) in the Huawei home router HG532.

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