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Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers

Posted by timothy on from the north-of-houston-you're-ok dept.

msm1267 writes: For the first time, DNS redirection attacks against small office and home office routers are being delivered via exploit kits. French security researcher Kafeine said an exploit kit has been finding success in driving traffic from compromised routers to the attackers' infrastructure. The risk to users is substantial, he said, ranging from financial loss, to click-fraud, man-in-the-middle attacks and phishing.

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  1. Re:Don't buy a router unless it suports openwrt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This gives you the option to install free software that


    • avoids deliberate company installed backdoors.

    • has bugs fixed on a regular basis

    • will work with IPV6

    • can be modified for unusual configurations.

    I like open source but let's not invent silly excuses. Open source software is not bug fixed on a regular basis. It is fixed only if the project is popular enough. And even then problems arise, see the Open SSH fiasco.

    The modularity inherent in open source projects like OpenWRT actually offer VERY fast bugfix turnaround because the underlying packages are individually very popular and get updated and ported with ease. OpenWRT is a great example of Open Source done right.