Worm infects unpatched Ubiquiti wireless devices

Routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks have recently been infected by a worm that exploits a year-old remote unauthorized access vulnerability. The attack highlights one of the major issues with router security: the fact that the vast majority of them do not have an auto update mechanism and that their owners hardly ever update them manually. The worm creates a backdoor administrator account on vulnerable devices and then uses them to scan for and infect other devices on th...