A hole in a router puts US security in check


A hole in a router puts US security in check



They steal classified military documents for not changing the password



A computer criminal has stolen US classified information about a military drone and several files related to tanks due to a misconfiguration of routers linked to the US Army.

The pirate managed to steal information sensitive to the US defense because two Netgear routers had not been updated to correct a vulnerability identified in 2016, nor had the access codes been changed, but there was the default password.

Through the Shodan search engine, the cybercriminal was able to easily find the misconfigured routers using standard 21 ports, and extract the files. Among the stolen files were information regarding the Dron Reaper MQ-9, a maintenance course for the Reaper and the list of people assigned to work with the Reaper AMU.

The criminal infiltrated the computer of a Reaper squad captain from the Crech air base in Nevada to steal this data. With the same method, the offender accessed the devices of a second person belonging either to the Pentagon or the Navy, due to the type of information extracted, and obtained the maintenance manual of the tank M1 Abrams, a training course on tanks and another of survival for the crew, as well as tactics to combat improvised explosives.

The hacker tried to sell these files on the deep Internet for between $ 150 and $ 200. The Insikt Group research team, belonging to Recorded Future, contacted him and discovered the cybercriminal, and extracted all the information corresponding to the case.

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