[botnets] (broadband routers) PC World: Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Props to Jeff Chan who I saw it from. Yes, I still believe these ISP distributed machines called broadband routers are a network operators issue. But not all may agree on that. -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080116/tc_pcworld/141399 Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Tue Jan 15, 7:08 PM ET Security researchers have released code showing how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience. The code, published over the weekend by researchers Adrian Pastor and Petko Petkov, exploits features in two technologies: The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, which is used by many operating systems to make it easier for them to work with devices on a network; and Adobe Systems' Flash multimedia software. By tricking a victim into viewing a malicious Flash file, an attacker could use UPnP to change the primary DNS (Domain Name System) server used by the router to find other computers on the Internet. This would give the attacker a virtually undetectable way to redirect the victim to fake Web sites. For example, a victim with a compromised router could be taken to the attacker's Web server, even if he typed Citibank.com directly into the Web browser navigation bar. The most malicious of all malicious things is to change the primary DNS server, the researchers wrote. That will effectively turn the router and the network it controls into a zombie which the attacker can take advantage of whenever they feel like it. Because so many routers support UPnP, the researchers believe that ninety nine percent of home routers are vulnerable to this attack. In fact, many other types of UPnP devices, such as printers, digital entertainment systems and cameras are also potentially at risk, they added in a Frequently Asked Questions Web page explaining their research. [...] ___ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
Re: [botnets] (broadband routers) PC World: Flash Attack Could TakeOver Your Router
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- How are you defining network operators? Do you mean by the normal [in most cases home] user? Apparently flash is able to allow UPnP access per PDP's posting at www.gnucitizen.org. Apparently this is not a flaw and is a feature (we've heard that before) of Flash and works as advertised. However, most of the broadband routers have UPnP open by default, so all a malicious SWF file has to do is start taking action via UPnP from your Linksys/NetGear/D-Link/etc. home router. You might want to look into disabling this function as it apparently doesn't support any form of authentication. Steven On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:10:40 -0600 (CST), Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Props to Jeff Chan who I saw it from. Yes, I still believe these ISP distributed machines called broadband routers are a network operators issue. But not all may agree on that. -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080116/tc_pcworld/141399 Flash Attack Could Take Over Your Router Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Tue Jan 15, 7:08 PM ET Security researchers have released code showing how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience. The code, published over the weekend by researchers Adrian Pastor and Petko Petkov, exploits features in two technologies: The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, which is used by many operating systems to make it easier for them to work with devices on a network; and Adobe Systems' Flash multimedia software. By tricking a victim into viewing a malicious Flash file, an attacker could use UPnP to change the primary DNS (Domain Name System) server used by the router to find other computers on the Internet. This would give the attacker a virtually undetectable way to redirect the victim to fake Web sites. For example, a victim with a compromised router could be taken to the attacker's Web server, even if he typed Citibank.com directly into the Web browser navigation bar. The most malicious of all malicious things is to change the primary DNS server, the researchers wrote. That will effectively turn the router and the network it controls into a zombie which the attacker can take advantage of whenever they feel like it. Because so many routers support UPnP, the researchers believe that ninety nine percent of home routers are vulnerable to this attack. In fact, many other types of UPnP devices, such as printers, digital entertainment systems and cameras are also potentially at risk, they added in a Frequently Asked Questions Web page explaining their research. [...] ___ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets ___ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
Re: [botnets] (broadband routers) PC World: Flash Attack Could TakeOver Your Router
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Steven Adair wrote: How are you defining network operators? Do you mean by the normal [in most cases home] user? Apparently flash is able to allow UPnP access per PDP's posting at www.gnucitizen.org. Apparently this is not a flaw and is a feature (we've heard that before) of Flash and works as advertised. However, most of the broadband routers have UPnP open by default, so all a malicious SWF file has to do is start taking action via UPnP from your Linksys/NetGear/D-Link/etc. home router. You might want to look into disabling this function as it apparently doesn't support any form of authentication. Steven Not me, I look at how many are out there, rather than the one home user, in this case. ___ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
Re: [botnets] Live Botnet Feed
To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just dropping a line to let everyone know I didn't die and the feed is coming ;) With the holidays and some other more urgent things that came up I got sidetracked but I'm trying to get this thing stumbling off the ground in one form or another this week and add more options later on. -- Bill Atchison http://www.crawlwall.com ___ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets