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> Well, considering that most home users never update their router's firmware, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the majority of applied updates are malicious.

Consumer grade routers often have automatic updates these days.

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To fix security issues, or to introduce new features increasing the attack surface?

OPNsense automatic updates are relatively conservative.

Yeah I have a pretty nice router and inexplicably, random nights, it drops out at 3am for ~3 minutes and then comes back on (and has all the markings of a reboot in terms of the pattern of request failures). I have to assume Synology just decided that nothing's using the internet at 3am

I had no idea that Synology did routers too, but I would assume this would be a configurable time somewhere in the settings. But yes, that sounds like automatic updates to me.

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