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Brazilian hackers remotely took over 4.5 million home routers, and compromised their DNS settings in their plot to make a fortune.
Fabio Assolini, a researcher for Kaspersky Labs, gave a fascinating presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference in Dallas last week, describing how more than 4.5 million home DSL routers in Brazil were found to have been silently hacked by cybercriminals last year.
Fixing the problem, however, was not so easy. The automated remote hacks of millions of ADSL modems had not just changed the devices' DNS settings - they had also changed the password to access the device to phrases like "dn5ch4ng3" and "cg4ng3dn5", meaning that users could no longer get in via their admin panels. If only they had known the exploit too..
Read more, a MUST:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/01/hacked-routers-brazil-vb2012/
