CERT Polska (the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team) has uncovered a Hack of Mass Destruction directed against the Polish Banking sector. This attack modified the DNS settings on victims routers, and then a simple man-in-the-middle attack was launched after the rogue DNS servers misdirected users to what they thought was their bank’s website. The attack […]
ABDELLI Nassereddine, an Algerian Computer Science Student has reported a highly critical unauthorized access and password disclosure vulnerability in the routers provided by Algerie Telecom. Algerie Telecom provides TP-LINK TD-W8951ND routers to most of their customers which contain this vulnerability. Nassereddine found that this router allows access to an administrator interface page without any authorization […]
Very interesting article about how an attacker can bring down an entire ISP by replacing firmware in routers/modems. The authors did a good job explaining the context and threats that are out there. They also explained how a hacker could fairly easily find large blocks of people who were all subscribers of the same ISP […]
The news out of Brazil is not good. An attack that was recently launched against the major ISPs in the country has resulted in 4.5 million DSL modem / routers hacked. This has left a large portion of the Brazilian population with unreliable internet service. The attack came about because of a vulnerability in the […]
On November 9, 2011, as part of “Operation Ghost Click” (a collaborative investigation into the operation), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national connected to DNSChanger and Rove Digital for wire fraud, computer intrusion, and conspiracy. Arrests were made by Estonian […]