#Salttyphoon has also reportedly hacked many other companies including #Chartercommunications (US), #Consolidatedcommunications (US), #Lumen, formerly #CenturyLink (US) and #Windstream (US). Remember that in many cases these hackers used the “lawful intercept” system used by law enforcement to access these systems. We must demand these backdoors be closed because it's proof of what security experts have said for years: A backdoor for the good guys also means a backdoor for the bad guys. 2/2

Nokia, Colt, and Windstream complete transatlantic 800GbE trial https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/nokia-colt-windstream-complete-transatlantic-800gbe-trial/ #nokia #colt #windstream #telecoms #networks #connectivity #tech #news #technology

Mystery #malware destroys 600,000 #routers from a #Windstream's Kinetic #ISP during 72-hour span
Incident, "#PumpkinEclipse," believed to be result of deliberate attack using commodity malware, #Chalubo to overwrite #router #firmware. Windstream, which has about 1.6 million subscribers in 18 states, has not provided an explanation for outage. Company sent replacement routers to affected customers, many of whom reported significant financial losses due to the disruption.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/mystery-malware-destroys-600000-routers-from-a-single-isp-during-72-hour-span/

Mass bricking of 600.000 routers

Yes, six hundred thousand, you have read it right, routers have been bricked last #October of one ISP & one ASN by a piece of malware, forcing the ISP to replace them with better protected ones

#InfoSec #ISP #routers #gateway #malware
#Windstream

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/mystery-malware-destroys-600000-routers-from-a-single-isp-during-72-hour-span/

Kit from #ActionTec and #Sagemcom remotely ruined and required replacement.

Almost half of #Windstream’s #Kinetic broadband users found their home routers completely dead, thanks to a malicious botnet known as #Chalubo. This happened seven months ago, but has only now come to light—via researchers who dubbed it #PumpkinEclipse.

It has echoes of Ukrainian #ISP modems mysteriously self destructing, just before the 2022 Russian invasion. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder if this was a test of something bigger. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2024/05/pumpkin-eclipse-windstream-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

「 #米国 の #プロバイダー の数十万台の #ルーター が #破壊 された」： heiseonline

「10月末、米国のインターネットサービスプロバイダー #Windstream では数十万台のルーターがオフラインになった。 3 日以内に、顧客の約半数がインターネットにアクセスできなくなりました。 ルーターが突然役に立たなくなり、交換する必要がありました。 リセットは機能しませんでした。 この #ISP は、米国 18 州、主に農村部の 120 万世帯未満と数万の企業にサービスを提供しています。 セキュリティ研究者のルーメンス氏によると、原因はルータの #ファームウェア への悪意のあるアップデートで、「 #Chalubo 」と呼ばれる #マルウェア が注入されたものだという。 」

https://www.heise.de/news/Hunderttausende-Router-eines-US-Providers-zerstoert-9742582.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#prattohome #heiseonline

Here we see a grave consequence of #capitalism - Windstream, a hedge fund-owned company with an estimated $5.1 billion in revenue last year, didn't make the proper investments to ensure proper redundancy for the 911 system in Nebraska.

Will the hedge fund that controls Windstream be held accountable? Unlikely. According to the FCC, 66.29% of #Windstream is foreign-owned. Those investors are unlikely to care about #Nebraska

Nebraska counties experience 911 outages again https://ketv.com/article/nebraska-counties-experience-911-outages/44981997

Hello fellow #sysadmin grinders.

If you value your sanity, please do not work with #Windstream in any capacity.

This has been a #PSA

https://ia802503.us.archive.org/17/items/pirate_party_radio/piratepartyradio-026-20100429-64k.ogg #windstream