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Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] arrakark@10291998.xyz 69 points 2 weeks ago (27 children)

I have a TP-Link router. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I searched around for a bit and I literally could not find which models of router were effected. All articles about Botnet-7777 are frustratingly vague with this.

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 34 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

I've had no end of trouble with routers and ones you should choose to be sure of.

The ones where you can flash OpenWRT seems the only choice if you want some semblance of security. But even my current Xiaomi router with stock firmware creates hash mismatches using apt to download things, and I don't 100% know with confidence that using OpenWRT on it instead is keeping me right.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Any opinion on Mikrotik?

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never used them pal, but seen them used in Enterprise environments?

Something I've found on a SOHO environment though and what I bought a family member?

Gli-Net mini routers. They come with OpenWRT as a base and then lipstick it with a nice interface. But as always, YMMV

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Years ago, another trade worker on a construction site was using their wifi stuff, and mentioned using it at home. I went and picked up the hexPOE router and i'm pretty happy with it, but all i'm doing is port forwarding and I set up a rule to capture all DNS requests and shunt them into my pihole.

The documentation is pretty spiffy and public.

I'm not really sure if this seems good because I don't know any better, or it's good because it's good.

edit Gli-net seems nice, but i'm a stickler of using a WAP separate from the router. I know I pay more.

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago

edit Gli-net seems nice, but i'm a stickler of using a WAP separate from the router. I know I pay more.

It's exactly why I bought her two of them. One their main router and the other in AP mode ;)

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