On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 10:52 AM Qiyu Yan <yanq...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Usually, a botnet is made up of those unmaintained but still running
> device.
>
> I happened to have read a article about a botnet build on hacked modems
> in China, https://blog.netlab.360.com/pink-en/ in this case, when
> devices gets hacked, the only to "fix" is a replacement.


I’m surprised they didn’t at least update the kernel included on OP’s modem
to a version that is still being maintained in the longterm…(4.4.y or later
I believe?)

goes without saying but… old versions of the kernel are certainly way more
prone to these attacks and 100% shouldn’t be included on hardware meant to
be connected to the internet. (let alone send that connection to other
devices and otherwise manage the network…)

Sent from my iPhone

> --
            -slade
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