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.
The vulnerabilities were spotted by Martin Rakhmanov's Trustwave, The researcher spent more than a year chasing vulnerabilities in Netgear's firmware.
Updates have been released, and you will be able to install them as soon as possible before bots and botnets start using them. Instructions on how to apply the updates are included in company websites.
Let's see what happened:
About 17 Netgear routers have remote bypass ID cards 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 a password access. How;
By simply adding the characters & genie = 1 at the end of the URL.
So bad news for any portal that has remote access enabled, as anyone on the internet can take advantage of the vulnerability and take ownership of the router. This can change DNS settings, redirect browsers to malicious sites and more.
Do not wait: Directly upgrade your Netgear firmware.
