DSL Router Botnet Uncovered

The team behind DroneBL, which monitors abusable IPs, claims to have uncovered a botnet comprised of hacked consumer-grade routers.

The group claims the botnet has been targeting DroneBL's servers in a denial-of-service campaign for several weeks and is the first of its kind. It uses brute-force password cracking attempts to hijack any Linux mipsel routing device that uses insecure or common username and password pairs.