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MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

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Re: MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

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Post by fasafsafsf »

breakingcups wrote: post #9
isostatic wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? In what way?

I (ironically) got a CoinHive warning from TrendMicro.

Get a better antivirus then, because it's picking the URL that appears in the post.

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Post by kibwen »

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or is out of stock entirely, or costs upwards of $250 (which is tough to sell to my friends, when their ISP charges $10/mo to rent a router with much less hassle).

Re: MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

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Post by Ahl4Gom6 »

kibwen wrote: post #14

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or…

I'm running openwrt on an R7800 and so far had no issues. But that's just the router, you'll still need a modem.

Re: MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

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Post by appleflaxen »

ccnafr wrote: post #3
a012 wrote: post #2

Article link is down on my end.

It's basically another take on this older report: https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Mass-Mik...

that's a month old; has the compromise been going on that long?

i guess so...

Re: MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers

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Post by ajayh »

kibwen wrote: post #14

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or…

Maybe something like the PC Engines apu2? http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

x86, can run OpenWRT.

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Post by isatty2 »

kibwen wrote: post #14

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or…

You can build your own router with inexpensive hardware and run pfsense on it. You can find many guides for that online.

Otherwise, get an edgerouter.

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Post by sokoloff »

kibwen wrote: post #14

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or…

I just last weekend retired a pair of Asus RT-AC66U routers/access points. They ran stable for years on Tomato (version tomato-RT-AC66U_AT-RT-AC6x-3.4-140-AIO-64K.trx) and I think all the hardware revisions work, but confirm that yourself.

I retired them mostly because the Ubiquiti management is much easier and that hardware also affordable (though the software is not open, so not a fit for your use case).

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Post by linuxlizard »

kibwen wrote: post #14

Can anyone suggest a wireless router that someone can buy today that either ships with or can be flashed with OSS firmware? I've been trying to shop around for one compatible with DD-WRT or OpenWRT and been rather disheartened so far; every promising model I've found either requires you to play roulette with the specific hardware version of the router that you receive (which is never advertised on product pages), or…

So far, I've had very good luck with the ASUS AC1300 (asus_rt-ac58u) and OpenWRT. I still need to add to the openwrt wiki but it was pretty easy. (Luck == I've bought two so far, plan to buy more)
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