This is an interesting piece about port-knocking backdoors in Juniper routers. Ineligible for the bingo, but interesting nonetheless.

https://heise.de/-10258876

Portknocking is not a new concept - I encountered it in the early 2000s and wrote my very first article in c't about it, while spending some evenings in the CCC Hannover's meeting room which I remember as a very "old school hacker den", in the literal sense (it was in a school's attic).
#backdoor #juniper #apt #portknocking

Juniper routers: Customized backdoors waiting for Magic Packets

IT researchers have discovered and investigated backdoors on Juniper routers. They are activated by magic packets.

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