Kaspersky Lab says it’s identified at least 100 victims of Slingshot, mostly in the Middle East and Africa. The Moscow-based security firm hints that the engineering behind the malware could only have been accomplished by a well-resourced attacker. The malware is highly advanced, solving all sorts of problems from a technical perspective and often in a very elegant way, the company writes. The attackers managed to swap a legitimate DLL for a malicious downloader that ended up on victims’ computers.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/how-slingshot-router-malware-lurked-for-six-years-a-10708