Ubiquity setup - part of FBI's disruption of botnet

[Reverend Benny]

This is why is should be banned for people who doesn't have a basic understanding of IT-security to set up their own routers or network environment....

Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU)

A January 2024 court-authorized operation has neutralized a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit, used to conceal and otherwise enable a variety of crimes.

www.justice.gov

 

[hobowankenobi]

Hard to protect people from themselves.

OTOH, UB could require a PW change, which would go a long way to prevent this.

 

[mcnallym]

Here in the UK then even when told about it then most of the people that use the ISP supplied Wi-Fi router don’t change the Wi-Fi password on it.

changing the default password will stop most of these but the end user has to do it.