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300, 000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 300, 000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm Eclypsium, is based on Internet-wide scans that […]