Weird, self-replicating 'TheMoon' worm crawls into Linksys routers

A self-replicating program is infecting Linksys routers by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in various models from the vendor’s E-Series product line. Researchers from SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center (ISC) issued an alertWednesday about incidents where Linksys E1000 and E1200 routers had been compromised and were scanning other IP (Internet Protocol) address ranges on ports 80 and 8080. On Thursday the […]