DEF CON 32 - Hacking Millions of Modems and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem - Sam Curry

On December 25th, 2021, I discovered that my modem had been hacked after a strange IP address replayed my traffic. I began researching who they were, how it happened, and eventually discovered a vulnerability which allowed me to passively monitor, change configurations, and execute commands on millions of devices. This talk details 3 years of intermittent web research on ISP security and how broadband equipment is becoming scarily centralized.