In early 2018, researchers at security firm Kaspersky said that a powerful nation-state malware called Slingshot, which had gone undetected for six years, initially spread through MikroTik routers.

Security companies across the globe track malware campaigns, including one named TrickBot. TrickBot monitors the web surfing activity of its victim, and activate when certain websites, such as ...

Attackers compromising MikroTik routers have configured the devices to forward network traffic to a handful of IP addresses under their control. Cybercriminals gained access to the devices by ...

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At Derbycon, a Tenable security researcher disclosed a new attack vector that could enable a hacker to get full root shell access on a vulnerable MikroTik router.

MikroTik routers have also been targeted by threat actors behind the malware VPNFilter who also used CVE-2018-14847. Tenable researcher Baines said he is not aware of the technique being exploited ...

Web 2.0, which first debuted in the early 2000s with a focus on user-generated content, rich user interfaces and cooperative services, also brought with it a new wave of security threats ...

Performance Issues In Web Security Although WAFs are designed to protect web applications, they often suffer from low performance (download), leading to not only scalability limitations but also ...

Here’s a look at 20 web, application and email security companies that have invested in everything from safeguarding cloud applications and embedding certificates on chips to identifying ...

My cheapo Mikrotik router is running RouterOS v6.47 which was released June 2020. It came (from Amazon in late June 2020) with 6.46.3. So I'm pretty sure the automatic update works.