Router-Compromising Malware in Latin America

Router compromising malware is making the rounds in Latin America. The exploits affects certain D-Link routers, granting a remote attacker complete administrative access to the affected router.

TrendLabsSM is currently taking a look at an interesting .ELF file that is actually an IRC backdoor program. We initially found some code suggesting that it performs brute-force attacks on router user name-password pairs.

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