FBI Announcement: Hundreds of thousands of routers comprised

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

55 minutes ago, Pib said:

 

There were more than one Asus model affected...cut and paste from above post...all older models.

 

 

Pib, note that my ONE affected ASUS router comment above was specifically in regards to their AC class routers (RT-AC...), not the list of N class routers you added (RT-N...).

 

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It's good to see that only ONE ASUS router model from the newer AC class is included in the latest warning list.

 

 

[Pib]

yes you did....I stand corrected.

[chubby]

I guess so few people use DD-WRT  that  they don't even  use the  term  "stock ROM" firmware  ....... just model numbers, which presumably no one ever re-flashes to up to date firmware even of the Brand of the hardware 

 

 

[seb2015]

On 5/29/2018 at 9:54 PM, Pib said:

Asus is very good in keeping its routers firmware up to date to fix bugs, add new features/capabilities, close the door on new internet threats which are formally known as  Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE).

 

https://searchfinancialsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/Common-Vulnerabilities-and-Exposures

 

Asus is probably not the worst in terms of security , but you should definitely listen to this podcast episode as they really really come from far on that area : https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/5

 

Thanks for reporting the issue - will work on adjusting my home setup now that you got me scared 
The threat of someone snooping on my traffic to change my https requests into http is .... scary !

[manarak]

there is definitely something strange going on, in the past 18 months or so I have owned 3 Asus routers, different models such as RT-N66U, AC-58U, AC-68U.

All three ended up bricked at some point during normal operation, all lights on, but no ping, no wifi, no lan, no internet. Reboot, power cycle didn't help, and 30 second factory reset didn't help either.

I was however able to recover all three routers by flashing their ROM with new firmware.