Only five of the 18 routers sampled had been properly wiped, while nine had sensitive company and customer data.
, out of the 18 corporate routers that the researcher team purchased secondhand, only five had been wiped. Nine of the routers had been left as is, two were encrypted, one was dead, and one was a copy of another device. The nine devices that hadn’t been wiped had enough information stored on them to identify the previous owners, and also login information for the organizations’ VPN, credentials for a communication service, and hashed root administrator passwords.
The ESET researchers will present their findings at the RSA security conference in San Francisco next week.“A core router touches everything in the organization, so I know all about the applications and the character of the organization—it makes it very, very easy to impersonate the organization,” said Cameron Camp, an ESET security researcher and project lead, to Wired.
Eight of the nine unwiped routers contained network keys and data on how the router connected to applications used by its last owner. Four had logins for the networks of collaborators the previous owners worked with, and three had data on how to connect to the previous owner’s network as a third party
. While 18 routers is a relatively small sample size, Wired says that the team has seen similar patterns in their research elsewhere.speakers, but they actually come equipped with mother
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