Infostealer malware, weak password leaves Orange Spain RIPE for plucking

January 4, 2024 at 08:18AM The massive outage at Orange Spain, affecting around half its network’s traffic, was caused by an infostealer malware gaining access to an employee’s account with the weak password “ripeadmin.” This breach allowed an attacker operating under the alias “Snow” to manipulate the network’s border gateway protocol (BGP) traffic. The incident … Read more