FRANKFURT: A cyberattack that infected nearly one million routers used to access Deutsche Telekom Internet service was part of a campaign targeting web-connected devices around the globe, the German government and security researchers said.
The revelation from the German Office for Information Security, or BSI, stoked fears of an increase in cyberattacks that disrupt Internet service by exploiting common vulnerabilities in widely used routers, webcams, digital video recorders and other web-connected devices.
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