If you are using a Netgear router in your home or elsewhere, it is probably time to upgrade the firmware… The manufacturer has just released a tsunami of patches for many of the models it manufactures and is affected by.
Vulnerabilities were identified by Martin Rakhmanov Trustwave, The researcher spent more than a year chasing vulnerabilities in Netgear's firmware.
The updates are out, and you'd do well to install them as soon as possible, before bots and botnets start exploiting them. Instructions on how applications of the updates are included in the company websites.
Let's see what happened:
About 17 routers by Netgear have remote authentication bypass via URL. This means that any malicious user or malware can gain access to your device's configuration page.
The most important thing is that anyone can gain access, without needing someone code access. How;
By simply adding the characters &genie=1 to the end of the URL addresss.
So very bad news for any portal that has remote settings access enabled, as anyone in the dianetwork can exploit the vulnerability and take over the router. So it can change DNS settings, redirect browsers to malicious sites and much more.
Do not wait: Directly upgrade your Netgear firmware.
