A botnet-type of attack using zombie routers taking advantage of a buggy UPnP feature has grown to 65,000 routers strong. This number of infected routers will continue to grow, all without their administrators finding-out the issue at all. The EternalSilence botnet is composed of at least 45,000 zombie routers, all of them have a buggy implementation of the Universal Plug&Play feature. Users of home routers should educate themselves on how to disable the feature. It can be disabled by accessing the admin page for the router, usually by browsing 192.1681681680.0.1.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/the-universal-plug-plays-unending-security-nightmare/