The White Team is building up a sizeable botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of home routers. The same “Vigilante-style Hacker,” who previously hacked more than 10,000 routers to make them more secure, has made headlines by compromising more than 70,000 home routers and making them secure against flaws and weak passwords. White Team aims at hacking and protecting between 150,000 and 200,000 devices from Lizard Squad attacks, thereby removing the rogue gang from people’s homes. Lizard Squad is the same group responsible for DDoS attacks against target websites to flood them with traffic.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/hacking-wireless-router.html