Massive Coinhive Cryptojacking Campaign Infects 170,000 MikroTik Routers August 02, 2018 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ng-campaign-infects-170-000-mikrotik-routers/
Thousands of Compromised MikroTik Routers Send Traffic to Attackers September 4, 2018 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...d-mikrotik-routers-send-traffic-to-attackers/
Other 3,700 MikroTik Routers compromised in cryptoJacking campaigns September 11, 2018 https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/76084/hacking/mikrotik-routers-cryptomining.html
Crypto-jacking epidemic spreads to 30K routers across India Cryptocurrency is mined on every page visited when using infected routers October 5, 2018 https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/10/05/crypto-jacking-malware-coinhive/
PoC Attack Escalates MikroTik Router Bug to ‘As Bad As It Gets’ https://threatpost.com/poc-attack-escalates-mikrotik-router-bug-to-as-bad-as-it-gets/
A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already October 12, 2018 https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-mysterious-grey-hat-is-patching-peoples-outdated-mikrotik-routers/
Sorry, just don't by this. If the actor is patching router firmware, he by overwhelming odds intends to use those devices later for assumed non-legit activities. He might also be performing a "smoke screen" in that hack code is only placed on select devices.
MikroTik mayhem: Cryptomining campaign abusing routers October 18, 2018 https://blog.avast.com/mikrotik-routers-targeted-by-cryptomining-campaign-avast
Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. December 4, 2018 https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/12/04/routers-cryptocurrency-miner-malware-monero/
Interpol - 8 Jan 2020 INTERPOL-led action takes aim at cryptojacking in Southeast Asia https://www.interpol.int/News-and-E...-takes-aim-at-cryptojacking-in-Southeast-Asia