<ul><li>Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform password spray attacks against users of Microsoft's Azure cloud service.</li><li>The botnet, known as Botnet-7777, is primarily composed of TP-Link routers and has been active since October 2023.</li><li>The attackers employ a technique called password spraying, which involves sending numerous login attempts from different IP addresses to evade detection.</li><li>This account-takeover campaign is challenging to detect due to the distributed nature of compromised devices within the botnet.</li></ul>

Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks

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