Concern over the security of home routers is nothing new, but has soared with the increasing fear that the Internet of Things (IoT) can (and already has) been used to generate huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The problem is that many home routers are known to include vulnerabilities, while home users are not known for their ability to behave securely.
Over the last few months Fortinet has been watching the signatures that indicate an attack against three particular home computers: Netcore/Netis, DLink, and Asus — all of which have known vulnerabilities. The targeted Asus vulnerability was disclosed in July 2015, but attacks against it did not seriously materialize until June 2016. Since then attacks have steadily increased.
