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Modem/Router Worm
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(link) Wednesday, 25-March-2009 17:07:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Mitsimonsta pointed out this worrying new worm which seems to have originated from Australia, and sets up a botnet by taking over home routers and modems. The malware contains the shellcode for over 30 different Linksys models, 10 Netgear models, and a variety of other cable and DSL modems (15 different shellcodes). A list of 6000 usernames and 13,000 passwords were also included, to be used for brute force entry to Telnet and SSH logins which are open to the LAN and sometimes even the public WAN side of the routers. Generally, routers do not lock a user out after a number of incorrect password attempts, making brute force attacks possible.
Discussion here.
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