The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace

Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic.

In a FLASH bulletin [PDF] on Wednesday, the FBI warned that aging routers from Linksys, Ericsson, and Cisco, commonly found in homes and small businesses, were being actively targeted by cybercriminals.

These devices, long past their update window, were compromised and made available for sale as part of a criminal proxy network marketed through the 5socks and Anyproxy domains. The botnet provided anonymity to malicious users and enabled a range of cybercrime, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to federal investigators and security researchers.

Here are the dusty old routers you need to watch out for:

• Linksys ...