a Trend Micro found that hackers were more likely to attack home routers. These devices tend to be poorly protected.
From the report of the company that, since October last year there has been a sharp increase in hacking attempts routers. For example, at the beginning of the 2019 fixed 9-10 million attempts per month, September — 23 million, and in October — almost 100 million Then the number only grew. And those are just numbers “brute hacking” when hackers are trying to crack the password to the device using too much popular options. The problem is that on many routers the default well-known passwords.
According to experts, especially the problem of hacking routers became relevant during a pandemic COVID-19, because at that time, many switched to remote work. Hackers turn the device in the army of bots used for DDoS attacks.
Trend Micro advised to check the router log for suspicious activity, update the firmware on it, set a complex password and change it often, disable remote login.
