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That was likely the point that whoever did it was trying to make, that they were an extremely bad device. 1) The ISP exposed some form of external management t
by bastard_op 2y ago
That was likely the point that whoever did it was trying to make, that they were an extremely bad device.
1) The ISP exposed some form of external management they used to access them they shoudldn't have
2) The attacker overcame whatever security used on said management interface
3) Once in, the attacker could simply overwrite the first few sectors of the nand to make them unbootable without local hardware serial console.
4) There was no failsafe recovery mechanism it would seem
An actual "modem" would mostly likely prove volatile/immutable by nature, but anything with a "router" built into it is far more vulnerable that typically run for poorly secured tiny linux systems, and subject to Chinese enshittification.