If you’ve been following this website and blog you’ll know that it’s filled with information about vulnerabilities and other security problems in home routers. But how did we ever get ourselves into this position? It certainly doesn’t need to be this way. Why is home networking equipment so problematic? Instead of answering the question we’ll just […]
The media has been reporting on the spread of the “Benevolent Malware” called Wifatch that is said to be infecting over 10,000 home routers worldwide. Wifatch was discovered by security researchers at Symantec and “attacks” home routers it finds that are running the telnet protocol in an unsecured way. Wifatch then installs itself into that […]
Sericon Technology’s popular RouterCheck application now enables home users to determine whether their home network has been compromised by the newly discovered Wifatch virus. Wifatch was disclosed several days ago by the cybersecurity company Symantec and it is believed to be infecting over 10,000 consumer routers worldwide. Home owners who are concerned about this virus […]
Yesterday, cybersecurity firm Symantec reported on a new piece of malware called Linux.Wifatch that attacks Linux-based home routers. And by “attack” we mean that it patches security holes that it finds to make the routers safer. Hey, wait…. That’s right, this router malware does not modify the user’s DNS settings nor does it launch a distributed […]