Anonymous Accused of Running a Botnet Using Thousands of Hacked Home Routers

An anonymous reader writes: New research indicates that Anonymous hacktivists (among other groups) took advantage of lazy security to hijack thousands of routers using remote access and default login credentials. "'For perpetrators, this is like shooting fish in a barrel, which makes each of the scans that much more effective,' the report explains. 'Using this botnet also enables perpetrators to execute distributed scans, improving their chances against commonplace blacklisting, rate-limiting and reputation-based defense mechanisms.'"

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The solution must surely be

[Anonymous Coward]

to put the router in the cloud.

Re:Well duh...

[Errol backfiring]

And off course the other way around. If I hack a router, I want to be anonymous. Oops, forgot to post as coward...