• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    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.

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

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      It’s a backdoor - they’re sending specific commands over the network to devices that were made vulnerable by design but in an obfuscated way.

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          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.

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            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.