[isapros] Re: home router exploit based botnets in the news..
- From: Jim Harrison <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:12:44 -0700
The vendor expects them to be replaced within a year or so - why plan a
maintenance process for them?
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Sure but how is the home user going to know which OS their router uses, which
brands are good, which ones aren't? Every one that I've seen has no update
mechanism.
thanks,
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Well, that didn't take long..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/psyb0t_home_networking_worm/
More than 100,000 hosts invaded
By Dan Goodin in San
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Posted in Security<http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/>, 24th March 2009
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Security researchers have identified a sophisticated piece of malware that
corrals consumer routers and DSL modems into a lethal botnet.
The "psyb0t" worm is believed to be the first piece of malware to target home
networking gear, according to researchers from
DroneBL<http://www.dronebl.org/>, which bills itself as a real-time monitor of
abusable internet addresses. It has already infiltrated an estimated 100,000
hosts. It has been used to carry out DDoS, or distributed denial of service,
attacks and is also believed to use deep-packet inspection to harvest user
names and passwords.
"This technique is one to be extremely concerned about because most end users
will not know their network has been hacked, or that their router is
exploited," the DroneBL researchers wrote here<http://www.dronebl.org/blog/8>.
"This means that in the future, this could be an attack vector for the theft of
personally identifying information. This technique is not going away."
Vulnerable devices include any home router or modem that uses Linux Mipsel, has
an administration interface, sshd, or telnet in a DMZ, and employs a weak
password. Once the malware takes hold, it locks legitimate users out of the
device by blocking telnet, sshd, and web access. It then makes the devices part
of a botnet. The researchers said they first learned of the worm while
investigating DDoS attacks that hit DroneBL's infrastructure two weeks ago.
The worm also helps identify exploitable phyMyAdmin and MySQL servers. More
information about psyb0t is available from this research paper
(PDF)<http://www.adam.com.au/bogaurd/PSYB0T.pdf> published in January
Yeh - "hardware" is secure; especially when it runs a "thin Linux".
JimmyJoeBobAlooba
From: Jim Harrison (FF EDGE CS) [mailto:Jim.Harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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