One attacker rented 87,000 IPs with a modified AI CLI
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The proxy case An attacker compromised more than 87,000 IP addresses by brute-forcing devices running PPTP and L2TP, two legacy VPN protocols still alive in many networks. The credentials he tried were the "admin123" type, the factory default username and password almost nobody changes. With those…
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- 2026-09-23 08:52 · DEV Community — AI
One attacker rented 87,000 IPs with a modified AI CLI