If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). This is a fairly old tech — created by a standards ...
A malicious campaign known as 'Eternal Silence' is abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) turns your router into a proxy server used to launch malicious attacks while hiding the location of the threat ...
If you've already disabled UPnP in your home router and its cousin NAT-PMP, consider yourself ahead of the curve. For the rest of you who are blissfully unaware that UPnP exists and is likely enabled ...