D-Link routers may have been infected by a worm or bot according to security researchers at Symantec. However, the company has backtracked on its intitial reports that a bot had definitely been identified.
The security company had issued warning to customers of its DeepSight threat notification service saying that there were "reliable reports" of an in-the-wild worm or bot that was attacking, then installing itself, on D-Link routers. However, the company has now decided that was a step too far. Techworld.com - Symantec fingers D-Link for bot attacks
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