Thousands of Hacked Routers Used for WordPress Attacks

The company, WordFence, reported that tens of thousands of routers, associated with the state-owned telecom company Telecom Algeria, have been hacked and used to launch attacks on wordpress sites. The researchers from the firm also identified up to 27 ISPs from various countries to have their routers involved in this hacking. The vulnerability was the result of ISPs listening on port 7547, used to manage customer’s devices, were running a vulnerable web server, AllegroSoft RomPager. WordFence has reported to have seen more than 90k unique IP address from a total of 28 ISPs to have become compromised.

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