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Massive Attack Targets Asian Routers
A massive Hack of Mass Destruction has been unleashed on routers primarily in Asia. Discovered by Team Cymru, this attack is believed to have affected over 300,000 devices, primarily in Vietnam, India...
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Major Problems with TR-069
When we began to look at the security issues with home routers, we ran right into a protocol called TR-069, also known as CWMP (customer-premises equipment wide area network management protocol). This...
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Shellshock and home routers
By now you’ve likely heard about the Shellshock vulnerability (also known as CVE-2014-6271). It’s a vulnerability that was recently discovered in the bash shell, a very old and central part of the...
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RouterCheck now detects the “Kafeine Vulnerability”
Security researcher Kafeine recently discovered a web-based attack tool that hackers have been using to compromise home routers. The attack utilizes Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities...
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Wifatch – The Router Trojan from Friendly Hackers?
Message left by Wifatch when trying to use telnet Yesterday, cybersecurity firm Symantec reported on a new piece of malware called Linux.Wifatch that attacks Linux-based home routers. And by “attack”...
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Is Deutsche Telekom the Scariest Ever “Hack of Mass Destruction”?
November 2016 will go down in history as a month where the unexpected actually happened. First, the Chicago Cubs, after a 108-year drought, won the World Series. Next, Donald Trump won the U.S....
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RouterCheck responds to the Deutsche Telekom problem
In light of the recent events involving the compromised routers in the Deutsche Telekom network, RouterCheck will now check for some of the indications that a router may be vulnerable to similar...
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100K Brits Knocked Offline as Mirai Problem Continues
The BBC is reporting that 100,00 customers of the British ISPs Talk Talk and Post Office have been knocked offline by an attack on their routers by a modified form of the Mirai worm. This is the same...
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Problems at British ISP TalkTalk continue
The researcher who discovered that the customer routers of British ISP TalkTalk were under attack has found that the problems didn’t end there. Pen Test Partners’ Ken Munro says that not only were tens...
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The TalkTalk Situation Gets Even Worse
The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been...
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