Mystery attacker remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update

Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ attack unknown

Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.…

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