Ongoing DNS hijackings target unpatched consumer routers

'A wave of DNS hijacking attacks that abuse Google's cloud computing
service is causing consumer routers to connect to fraudulent and
potentially malicious websites and addresses, a security researcher
has warned.

By now, most people know that Domain Name System servers translate
human-friendly domain names into the numeric IP addresses that
computers need to find other computers on the Internet. Over the past
four months, a blog post published Thursday said, attackers have been
using Google cloud service to scan the Internet for routers that are
vulnerable to remote exploits. When they find susceptible routers, the
attackers then use the Google platform to send malicious code that
configures the routers to use malicious DNS servers.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/ongoing-dns-hijackings-target-unpatched-consumer-routers/

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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