As I recall, the unit in question had a severely flawed "auto" channel selection algorithm that always, without fail, landed on the first OCCUPIED channel. It was pretty terrible. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:18 PM, James Sink <james.sink@freedomvoice.com>wrote:
"Personally I have fond memories of going into my neighbor's router, flashing it with dd-wrt which allowed manual channel setting, and moving it off of the same wifi channel mine was on.... That was probably not a great idea, but you do what you have to sometimes."
Props on that, but wouldn't it have been easier to simply change your channel setting? -James
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Morris [mailto:blueneon@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:59 AM Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: CPE dns hijacking malware
EXTREMELY common. Almost all Comcast Cable CPE has this same login, cusadmin / highspeed At least on AT&T U-Verse gear, there's a sticker on the modem with the password which is a hash of the serial number or something equally unique.
Almost all home routers also tend to have the default credentials.
I'm actually surprised it was this long before XSS exploits and similar garbage started hitting them.
Personally I have fond memories of going into my neighbor's router, flashing it with dd-wrt which allowed manual channel setting, and moving it off of the same wifi channel mine was on.... That was probably not a great idea, but you do what you have to sometimes.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com
wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:35:51 +0000 From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net> To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: CPE dns hijacking malware
On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
(2) DHCP hijacking daemon installed on the client, supplying the hijacker's DNS servers on a DHCP renewal. Have seen both, the latter being more common, and the latter will expand across the entire home subnet in time (based on your lease interval)
I'd (perhaps wrongly) assumed that this probably wasn't the case, as the OP referred to the CPE devices themselves as being malconfigured; it would be helpful to know if the OP can supply more information, and whether or not he'd a chance to examine the affected CPE/end-customer setups.
I have encountered a family members provider supplied CPE that had the web server exposed on the public interface with default credentials still in place. It's probably more common than one would expect.
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