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. . Scientists reveal a substantial breach affecting more than 300,000 Wi-Fi routers repurposed for harmful DNS modifications.. Router Compromise,DNS Hijacking,IoT Security,Wireless Networking,Network Threats. . Dave Wreski
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