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"Shodan searches indicate that the backdoor affects over 600.000 externally accessible hosts" It doesn't look like this is LAN-only. Even if it were, an escal
by Nacraile 11y ago
"Shodan searches indicate that the backdoor affects over 600.000 externally accessible hosts"
It doesn't look like this is LAN-only.
Even if it were, an escalation from unprivileged code execution on a single device to MITM any connection out of a network hardly seems "low priority".
- johncolanduoni 11y agoI'm guessing they used Shodan to locate the models they knew were affected (i.e. by model numbers), not to try the backdoor on unsuspecting devices (which would be illegal).