77 routers of Cisco vulnerable

77 routers of Cisco were identified to be vulnerable to the drive-by pharming attack.
This attack was exposed by Symantec last week around.

According to a report by iTWire which quoted "The attack can be launched through malicious code on websites that can reach into your router and modify its settings, exposing you to phishing attempts to get your banking username and password, other login information or other data on your computer – but only if the default username and password haven’t been changed.

Once the username and password have been changed, the drive-by pharming attack won’t work – unless hackers try to use some form of brute force attack to guess your username and password. But for now, that’s more difficult to do or hide"


Report Courtesy www.itWire.com.au