Threat actorhigh
Hundreds of thousands of routers exposed to Eternal Silence campaign via UPnP
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-0144 | Remote Code Execution in Microsoft SMBv1 (EternalBlue) affecting Windows and Siemens devices | 8.8 | 99% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×6 | KEV |
| CVE-2017-7494 | Unauthenticated RCE in Samba via malicious shared library upload (SambaCry) | 9.8 | 99% | KEVRansomware | KEV |
From the original article
4 min read at securityaffairs.com
A hacking campaign, tracked as Eternal Silence, is abusing UPnP to compromise routers and use them to carry out malicious activities. Researchers from Akamai have spotted a malicious campaign, tracked as ‘Eternal Silence,’ that is abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to turn routers into a proxy server used to carry out a broad range of malicious activities anonymously.
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