A world-spanning network of hijacked home routers has been uncovered by security researchers.

The network involves more than 300,000 routers in homes and small businesses that have been taken over through loopholes in their core software.

Discovered by researchers at Team Cymru, the network is thought to be one of the biggest involving such devices.

Quite a worrying new trend in hacking.

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It is not yet clear what the people behind the attack intend to do with the collection of compromised routers.