No – the actor Chuck Norris is not giving a deadly kung-fu kick or karate chop to networking hardware devices This is a new botnet attack against cable modems, DSL modems, and WiFi routers that use the Linux operating system. This has been dubbed the “Chuck Norris” virus because the Italian author of this exploit wrote a tribute to Chuck Norris in the source code comments.
Why attack network edge devices and routers? First, because these devices have a small but ...
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