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Old 3rd March 2014
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Default Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireless routers, make malicious changes

From http://arstechnica.com/security/2014...cious-changes/

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Devices made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, and TP-Link hijacked in ongoing attack.

Researchers said they have uncovered yet another mass compromise of home and small-office wireless routers, this one being used to make malicious configuration changes to more than 300,000 devices made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link, and others.

The hackers appear to be using a variety of techniques to commandeer the devices and make changes to the domain name system (DNS) servers used to translate human-friendly domain names into the IP addresses computers use to locate their Web servers, according to a report published Monday by researchers from security firm Team Cymru.
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