Report: Number of Compromised Routers in India Doubled, Reaching Almost 30,000

A recent report by security company Banbreach has found that in the past month, the number of routers compromised by cryptojacking software in India has doubled.

The report indicates that hackers have cracked over 30,000 routers within the country, Hard Fork reported Oct. 5.

Banbreach managed to track Internet traffic and detect all devices on the Internet with public IP addresses, which made it possible to examine traffic passing through routers.

According to the report, 45 percent of the infected routers in India are in the least densely populated areas.

"For the top three cities with the most infected routers, the growth has been ," Banbreach reported.

The number of compromised routers have doubled in the past month.

For the top three cities with the most infected routers, the growth has been ~5x. pic.

Vipin Nathaw, a security enthusiast from Mumbai, tweeted that he "Found the same thing in the router provided by [his] Internet service provider a couple of days ago. Probably all the routers used by them are infected and outdated."

Per the report, over 13,500 home routers in India were infected by cryptojacking malware - a figure that was only outflanked globally by Brazil.

175 million of Monero - around 5 percent of all XMR in circulation at the time of the report - had been mined maliciously.