An interesting article. Of course, Windstream had no comment. But neither did the FBI or Homeland Security.
Research suggests Windstream had 600,000 modems bricked by malware. Only affected units were in Windstream's BGP ASN (autonomous system number).
Kinda sounds like inside job or revenge, like the ransomware event we didn't talk about or report.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/mystery-malware-destroys-600000-routers-from-a-single-isp-during-72-hour-span/
Who gives a sh-t about any of them?
Tech Spot now talking about it: https://www.techspot.com/news/103234-unknown-hackers-disabled-more-than-600000-routers-belonging.html
Maybe not buying the cheapest routers in the world would be a great idea. Remember the ones that melted on people's tables?
ASNs are publicly available. They have to be for the internet to work.
https://asnlookup.com/organization/Windstream/https://asnlookup.com/organization/Windstream/
did they published the BGP ASN number ?
Working with integrity
More of their half assed way of doing things, it used to drive me crazy working for this place when the voice system would get hacked.
The NOCs solution:
Hey, lets blacklist all these countries ip ranges from being able to hit our voice servers, that would fix 95% the fraud.
Engineering:
Thats too difficult to do, just blackhole thier single ip address all day at 2 am, and keep reporting the hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraud each month. Re--rds act like no one knows what a VPN is. Don't get me started on the fraud group, bunch on no talent mo--ns.
Residential/ Kenetic outsourced their security and this is the end result. Some key information was leaked. RIP AS7401
Windstream prob doing this just to get more people to pay money to rent their modems from Windstream. Greed is alive and well.
Oh yeah, that was fun times right after the Oct 23 mass layoff. At least the Dalton Panda saw the end of the train tracks.
Even Yahoo has it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-thousands-us-internet-routers-142544224.html
"A comparison of details and event descriptions in the Lumen report with internet outages on the dates of the attack pointed to one entity: Arkansas-based internet service provider Windstream."