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According to researchers at DroneBL, a worm is currently exploiting routers as well as DSL modems to develop a botnet. The worm, also known as psybot, is rather new but has already attacked around 100,000 units.
DroneBL said the botnet in question has already been used by cyber crooks to execute a denial-of-service attacks. It is also reported to sport a deep-packet inspection ability which gather log in data like user name and password.
DroneBL has discovered the worm following a breach on their network two weeks ago. Devices invaded by the worm include home routers or modem that runs on Linux Mipsel, with an administration interface, sshd, or telnet in a DMZ, and has a weak password.
"This technique is one to be extremely concerned about because most end users will not know their network has been hacked, or that their router is exploited," DroneBL posted in its site.
"This means that in the future, this could be an attack vector for the theft of personally identifying information. This technique is not going away," DroneBL added.
