It affected three router models issued by the ISP: ActionTec T3200, ActionTec T3260, and Sagemcom F5380.
The routers, roughly estimated at a minimum of 600,000, were taken offline by an unknown threat actor.
It deleted elements of the routers operational code and made them effectively inoperable.
The researchers believe the downloaded malware ran code that permanently overwrote the router firmware.
According to the researchers, the potential consequences of the attack can be serious.
We assess with high confidence that the malicious firmware update was a deliberate act intended to cause an outage.
Destructive attacks of this nature are highly concerning, especially so in this case.
source: www.techworm.net
