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I can see this.

I was recently contacted by IP's abuse department about something on my network sending out malicious requests.

It turned out to be an old WiFi router I had, which was fixed by an update. I'm guessing it was compromised a while back and was only recently used.

The Fed reversing monetary policy has some interesting consequences.

You kept the router?

Did you at least flash it?

Yup. That's what the "fixed by an update" part referred to.

There's a difference between pressing "update" in a known-compromised device's webUI, and flashing it from the outside.

The advisory stated affected devices could be update through the device UI.

But if it didn't, then that's another can of worms.