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Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] gregorum@lemm.ee 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

probably the latter, since all of these routers were unpatched, out-of-date routers, and that's how they were exploited in the first place.

however, the article specifically states that the court documents are all redacted when it comes to the details

[โ€“] SharkAttak@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

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