Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

[realitista@lemm.ee]

What bot?

[ryan213@lemmy.ca]

That's exactly what a bot would say.

[realitista@lemm.ee]

Got me there.

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

There isn’t a bot here.

The bot is on the original instance this was reposted from.

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.

Gee who is really interested in securing semiconductor technologies these past few years.

I wonder who could be behind this attack, probably Zimbabwe.

[mox@lemmy.sdf.org]

How is that different in any practical way?

[01189998819991197253@infosec.pub]

"Someone"....

[sp6@lemmy.world]

I think OP's wording wasn't super clear. A bot created the original post on [email protected], but a human saw the bot's post there, and decided to cross-post it here to [email protected].

[deceptichum@quokk.au]

Yes, very.

Imagine I took a photo with your friend, your friend showed you the photo and you saw my picture. You wouldn’t ask why I was here with you, because I’m not there.

[fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev]

nah, clearly denmark

[thebat@lemmy.world]

Denmark Zuckerberg

[grue@lemmy.world]

You're just saying that because Trump wants Greenland.

(Seriously though, this timeline is stupid enough that there's a non-zero chance Trump really does use "Denmark is h4XX0rz our routers" as a casus bellum.)

[infernal_pizza@lemm.ee]

I couldn’t really tell from the article, are they somehow infecting existing routers or is this being installed during manufacturing?

[realitista@lemm.ee]

Lemmit takes posts from Reddit and imports them into Lemmy. I cross-posted one of those posts here. I do that when there's an interesting one I think more people would like.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

It’s a backdoor - they’re sending specific commands over the network to devices that were made vulnerable on purpose.