An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.

An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.

      • @Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•1 month ago

        Maybe, or a bigger ISP wants to get in on that rural turf. But I was wondering what else the malware may have done before physically destroying those routers. I also kinda wonder if this might be a test run for a larger attack. And now I’m imagining what it might be like if everyone’s routers bricked in a 72 hour period. I think I’ll pick up some extra TP tomorrow.

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          8•1 month ago

          Imagine if a country lost all communications as a prelude to invasion. Think about it, there would be chaos and communication would be hard.

          Of course that would require someone to compromise a wide variety of devices and networks. Good thing we don’t have issues with centralization.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    I wonder why? Did someone just hate the ISP or was this a state actor. For all we know this could of been the trial run

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•30 days ago

        Compared to the population of the US that’s small. Imagine if everyones internet stopped working

    • @jonneEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Could be an extortion scheme of some kind.