Today’s article is courtesy of John Mason, co-founder of TheBestVPN.com and writer at Tripwire, StaySafeOnline, DigitalGuardian y Educause. You can find him on twitter as @JohnCyberMason.
Do you trust your router to keep you safe from hackers and spies? You may want to take another look just to make sure.
Akamai recently discovered a malware campaign that has already compromised over 45,113 home and office routers. This was done using a tool based on the United States of America’s NSA hacking tools which were leaked online in 2017. To explain how hackers use this tool to turn your router into a proxy server, we first have to understand how UPnP works.
UPnP is a protocol that eases device and service discovery as well as the configuration of consumer devices and networks. Its primary purpose was to allow devices on a LAN to automatically expose services and functionality other devices on the local network.
