If you are using a Netgear router on home yours or somewhere else, it's probably time to upgrade the firmware... The manufacturer has just released a tsunami of patches for many models it manufactures that are affected.
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 better install them as soon as possible before bots start exploiting them and botnets. Instructions on how to apply the updates are included in the company websites.
Let's see what happened:
About 17 routers by Netgear 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 access without having a password. 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.
