Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere

Cybercriminals and APT actors collaborate in compromised routers for anonymity, blending financial and espionage motives for challenging detection.

Financially motivated hackers provide access to compromised routers to nation-state hackers, resulting in a mix of malicious activities.

Moobot botnet malware was used by financially motivated threat actors on compromised routers later targeted by Kremlin-backed hackers.

Routers, VPN nodes, and servers are battlegrounds for cybercriminals and state actors in a chaotic free-for-all compromising privacy and security.

Read at Ars Technica