Threat: Several Netgear routers are vulnerable to remote hacking.
Real World Scenarios: A hacker can take over your router and use it for other nefarious purposes. While compromised the router would most likely perform poorly affecting your Internet Access.
Mitigation: Here’s what you can do –
- Check for updates for your router and apply them regularly. Especially over the next few days/weeks.
- If a patch for your router hasn’t been releases yet you can use this link to temporarily disable the vulnerability.
- http://[router_IP_address]/cgi-bin/;killall$IFS’httpd’
- This disables the routers web interface and will only protect the router until the next restart.
- You will need to restart in order to access the routers web interface to check for and apply updates.
More Info:
Netgear KB Article
http://kb.netgear.com/000036386/CVE-2016-582384
PC Mag Article
