Thursday, October 3, 2024
HomePassword Attacks8,00,000 Virgin Media Home Routers Vulnerable to Password Attacks, Virgin Urged...

8,00,000 Virgin Media Home Routers Vulnerable to Password Attacks, Virgin Urged to change the Users Password

Published on

Virgin Media Home Router Super Hub 2 vulnerability that has found from Default password that leads to hacking the Super Hub 2 home Routers within a day. Virgin Media, a leading provider of internet, TV, and phone services.

Routers Default Password Contains very weak passphrases that can easy to hack within very short time by using advanced hacking Tools that has Found in online.

According to which? The user had remained on the relatively weak default password – only eight characters long, using just lowercase letters from an A-Z alphabet, with two letters removed.

- Advertisement - EHA

Also Read Exploitation Framework for Embedded devices – RouterSploit

Virgin said, approximately 864,000 Super Hub 2 routers still in customers’ homes that has low security contain Default Passwords.

Which ? Investigation targets real home Routers virgin Media Super Hub 2 router for its cable broadband and successfully cracked the Password and also  log in to the router’s configuration page, since the default password for doing so is shared across all Super Hub 2 devices.

Hack Connected Devices

Virgin Super Hub 2 hack investigation reported that , this Passphrase Flow also leads to access the other IOT Devices inside of the home that has been Connected with this Routers .

Once the Virgin super Hub 2 Compromised  which is used with Default password, then Hacker can Control even the Smart Devices of used in home.

Also read Critical Cisco Security Authentication Bypass Vulnerability leads to hacking thousands of home routers

After reported to Virgin by which? , there are approximately 864,000 Super Hub 2 routers in customer homes, although those numbers are falling as more customers are upgraded to the Hub 3.0.

Virgin said Super Router 3.0 has Strong Default that contains 12 Character long and Mixed of symbols and numbers.

Security Test that done by Virgin for 3.0 version and confirmed the High security with Router and its impossible to Compromised by any kind of Password Attacks.

Virgin requested to Super Hub 2.0 Version users to Change the Default password and Make sure your new password has at least 12 characters and includes a mix of upper and lowercase letters, plus numbers. Find out how to set a new password below.

Also read Black Nurse attack: Will a single laptop bring down Servers/Routers

Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

Latest articles

Northern Ireland Police to Pay £750,000 Fine Following Data Breach

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been ordered to pay a £750,000...

ANY.RUN Upgrades Threat Intelligence to Identify Emerging Threats

ANY.RUN announced an upgrade to its Threat Intelligence Portal, enhancing its capabilities to identify...

Cisco Nexus Vulnerability Let Hackers Execute Arbitrary Commands on Vulnerable Systems

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco's Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), potentially...

Hackers Now Exploit Ivanti Endpoint Manager Vulnerability to Launch Cyber Attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced the addition of a new...

Free Webinar

Decoding Compliance | What CISOs Need to Know

Non-compliance can result in substantial financial penalties, with average fines reaching up to $4.5 million for GDPR breaches alone.

Join us for an insightful panel discussion with Chandan Pani, CISO - LTIMindtree and Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO – Indusface, as we explore the multifaceted role of compliance in securing modern enterprises.

Discussion points

The Role of Compliance
The Alphabet Soup of Compliance
Compliance
SaaS and Compliance
Indusface's Approach to Compliance

More like this

10 Best WiFi Hacking Apps for Android – 2024 Edition

In this article, we are sharing the top “Wi-Fi hacking Apps“ for Android applicants....

Brutespray – Port Scanning and Automated Brute Force Tool

Brutespray is a Python script that provides a combination of both port scanning and automated...

fsociety a Complete Hacking Tools pack that a Hacker Needs – Penetration Testing Framework

fsociety is a penetration testing framework that consists of all penetration testing tools that...