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Continue reading below:For nearly a year, Brazilian users have been targeted with a new type of router attack that has not been seen anywhere else in the world.
The attacks are nearly invisible to end users and can have disastrous consequences, having the ability to lead to direct financial losses for hacked users.
What's currently happening to routers in Brazil should be a warning sign for users and ISPs from all over the world, who should take precautions to secure devices before the attacks observed in South American country spread to them as well.
Brazil is at the forefront of a new type of router attack
Avast: More than 180,000 routers in Brazil had their DNS settings changed in Q1 2019.
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Router Exploit Kits: An overview of RouterCSRF attacks and DNS hijacking in Brazil - Avast Threat Labs
Intro Router exploit kits are nothing new in Brazil; a router exploit kit named GhostDNS was discovered by Netlab360 in the fall of 2018, showing more than 100K infected SOHO routers. Novidade and other variants of the GhostDNS exploit kit have also been pretty active this year, and Avast has...
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