An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.
    • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4811·
      6 months ago

      It’s possible the “mystery” they refer to could be related to the identity of the hacker(s), how it got onto the routers in the first place, or the purpose for the attack

        • Odelay42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2313·
          6 months ago

          You posses extremely niche knowledge. Being catty because the headline doesn’t suit your preferences comes off as fairly rude and pretentious. Good for you for understanding that the headline is misleading, but there are more relatable ways to say that.

          • catloafEnglish
            716·
            6 months ago

            Basic reading comprehension shouldn’t be considered extremely niche knowledge

      • BearOfaTimeEnglish
        88·
        6 months ago

        “mystery malware”

        The article clarifies the name of the malware.

        Clickbait BS. Why are you being disingenuous?

        • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          6 months ago

          Your reply reads to me as if you’re calling me disingenuous, which I can’t for the life of me understand. I’m not the author. I offered a possible explanation.

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        OpenWRT uses Lua for its web UI. The interpreter can be really small which works well for tiny embedded devices with mere megabytes of storage, and it’s much safer than writing a web GUI entirely in C.

        • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Yeah I completely forgot about the consumer side of things. I was expecting there being Cisco iOS/FRR router configs, not a full web dashboard.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I imagine the malware binary includes a lua interpreter for executing scripts fetched from its command and control server.