Corporate Secrets Exposed Through Discarded Routers
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Researchers from ESET found that more than half of secondhand enterprise routers they bought for testing had been left completely intact by their previous owners, and the devices were brimming with network information, credentials, and confidential data about the institutions they had belonged to. The wealth of information on the devices would be valuable to cybercriminals and even state-backed hackers. Corporate application logins, network credentials, and encryption keys have high value on dark web markets and criminal forums.
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- Enterprises Exposed to Hacker Attacks Due to Failure to Wipe Discarded Routers SecurityWeek
- Discarded, not destroyed: Old routers reveal corporate secrets We Live Security
- Your router could be leaking a whole lot of personal data without you knowing TechRadar
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