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Sorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research in this article is entirely about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their o
by ShorsHammer 9y ago
Sorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research in this article is entirely about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use.[1]
Are you suggesting private APT's exist? Seen no evidence so far that it's anyone but a dozen nations who lamely try to rebrand every now and then.
UPnP is a world of trouble in general, but even moreso for the average person disabling it in a house full of kids. There's needs to be responsibility taken by any large tech company pushing insecure products on their customers.
[1] researchers at Symantec had uncovered parts of this proxy network due to their ongoing investigation into the “Inception Framework,” and the APT group behind it.
- dcow 9y agoSorry perhaps I don't understand your point, but the research is about governments and bad actors penetrating home networks for their own use. Source? This isn't a new report. All it talks about is that misconfigured upnp is used by one APT framework (see: https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception-framework-hiding-behind-proxies https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception...).
- vuln 9y agoUmm... It was leaked the CIA (the US government exploited home routers... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/advanced-cia-firmware-turns-home-routers-into-covert-listening-posts/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/advan...