Used Routers Often Come Loaded With Valuble Information

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Content source

https://www.wired.com/story/used-enterprise-router-company-secrets/

“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,” says Cameron Camp, the ESET security researcher who led the project. “In one case, this large group had privileged information about one of the very large accounting firms and a direct peering relationship with them. And that’s where to me it starts to get really scary, because we’re researchers, we’re here to help, but where are the rest of those routers?" The big danger is that the wealth of information on the devices would be valuable to cybercriminals and even state-backed hackers. Corporate application logins, network credentials, and encryption keys have high value on dark web markets and criminal forums.

Used Routers Often Come Loaded With Corporate Secrets

More than half of the enterprise routers researchers bought secondhand hadn’t been wiped, exposing sensitive info like login credentials and customer data.

www.wired.com

 

[I Walk MY Way]

When ever I am done with a router like (replacing it or it failed old age) I take a power drill to it, No one is recovering anything from it then,

 

[Oldie1950]

When ever I am done with a router like (replacing it or it failed old age) I take a power drill to it, No one is recovering anything from it then,

This is also how I treat discarded hard drives and SSDs.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

This is also how I treat discarded hard drives and SSDs.

Me too.

 

[markstitovits]

The full documentation can be found here:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/used_routers_corporate_secrets.pdf