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Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

Mysterious backdoor found on select Juniper routers

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Loki-L on 2025-01-27 15:01:51+00:00.

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Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.
Gee who is really interested in securing semiconductor technologies these past few years.
I wonder who could be behind this attack, probably Zimbabwe.
- nah, clearly denmark
  
  Denmark Zuckerberg
  
  You're just saying that because Trump wants Greenland.
  (Seriously though, this timeline is stupid enough that there's a non-zero chance Trump really does use "Denmark is h4XX0rz our routers" as a casus bellum.)
"Someone".... 👀
I couldn’t really tell from the article, are they somehow infecting existing routers or is this being installed during manufacturing?
- It’s a backdoor - they’re sending specific commands over the network to devices that were made vulnerable by design but in an obfuscated way.
- What bot?
  
  That's exactly what a bot would say.
- There isn’t a bot here.
  The bot is on the original instance this was reposted from.

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