HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ROUTER FROM BEING HACKED AND BECOMING A RESIDENTIAL PROXY

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Hackers target home routers to use as residential proxies, command-and-control servers, and botnets. Recent ASUS breaches demonstrate that backdoors can survive updates. These attacks often brute-force default passwords or exploit vulnerabilities, then install SSH backdoors. Defenses include disabling WAN management and SSH, changing default credentials, enabling automatic updates, and auditing configs for unauthorized access.