Home router attacks - the snowball effect…
It looks like everyone is jumping on the home router attacks bandwagon. Zulfikar Ramzan restates his definition of drive-by pharming where it “It allows attackers to create a Web page that, simply when viewed, results in substantive configuration changes to your home broadband router or wireless access point.” There are some examples in there including attacks against the standard router used in Mexico. A combination of flaws in the router allow the reconfiguration of the router to point to a rogue DNS server, which can point to a popular/trusted website to an ip address of host of an attacker. All this comes with the recent findings that the BT home hubs had an authentication bypass vulnerability (requiring an user to click a malicious link) found by gnucitizen.
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