- Dec 30, 2012
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"Researchers said they have uncovered yet another mass compromise of home and small-office wireless routers, this one being used to make malicious configuration changes to more than 300,000 devices made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link, and others.
The hackers appear to be using a variety of techniques to commandeer the devices and make changes to the domain name system (DNS) servers used to translate human-friendly domain names into the IP addresses computers use to locate their Web servers, according to a report published Monday by researchers from security firm Team Cymru. Likely hacks include a recently disclosed cross-site request forgery (CSRF) that allows attackers to inject a blank password into the Web interface of TP-Link routers. Other attack techniques may include one that allows wireless WPA/WPA2 passwords and other settings to be remotely changed."
"Have I been hacked?
The telltale sign a router has been compromised is DNS settings that have been changed to 5.45.75.11 and 5.45.76.36. Team Cymru researchers contacted the provider that hosts those two IP addresses but have yet to receive a response. The researchers also privately contacted representatives of all manufactures of routers being successfully hacked in this latest campaign."
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