Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers a backdoor to your network and your data.
The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers.
At the moment the code looks to be mostly injecting additional adverts into pages, and redirecting some links to sites, but this could very easily be modified to capture all page requests made, redirect users to fake versions of popular websites where information can be captured, such as log on details and banking information, and to download additional malware and and viruses, disguising them as genuine software so users are confident they can click to install them.
If you need help with securing your home or business network, and putting preventative measures in pace to make sure your data is as secure as it can be, contact tinsleyNET today.
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across the West Midlands and Shropshire.
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