Researchers claim that the MikroTik RouterOS issue exposes routers to privilege escalation attacks, enabling threat actors to take complete control of exposed devices.
Researchers at security firm VulnCheck found that a serious issue in MikroTik RoutersOS, listed as CVE-2023-30799, was impacting 500,000 to 900,000 publicly accessible devices. A resolution was found on July 20, 2023.
For botnet operators, hundreds of thousands of susceptible devices are a tempting target. For instance, the Latvian-made MikroTik network devices were used in one of the biggest botnet attacks, which was aimed against the Russian internet company Yandex read more MikroTik OS bug exposes over 500000 devices.
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