The campaign has already affected at least 100 businesses across Europe, North America and Latin America.
as workers relied more heavily on their at-home routers to connect to corporate networks.Researchers believe hackers are seizing the routers as part of a long-term espionage and data exfiltration operation, although it remains unclear who is behind the campaign.
The HiatusRAT malware intercepts any data that passes through its systems and sends it to the hackers. The malicious actors also set up the infected routers to operate as bots that disperse malicious traffic to victims on other networks, obfuscating whatever trail they leave behind."These devices typically live outside the traditional security perimeter, which means they usually are not monitored or updated," said Mark Dehus, director of threat intelligence for Lumen Black Lotus Labs, in a statement.
Lumen Technologies recommends consumers regularly monitor, reboot and install security updates onto their at-home, self-managed routers.
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