Corporate Secrets Exposed Through Discarded Routers
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.