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Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet (www.theregister.com)
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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Loki-L on 2025-01-27 15:01:51+00:00.

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I couldn’t really tell from the article, are they somehow infecting existing routers or is this being installed during manufacturing?

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It’s a backdoor - they’re sending specific commands over the network to devices that were made vulnerable by design but in an obfuscated way.