Hart said the amplification factor of this service can go up to , posing the real danger that attackers could find a way to weaponize this service and carry out DDoS attacks in excess of 1Tbps, which Hart described as "a crippling amount of traffic to all but the most fortified infrastructure. The Rapid7 researcher said that the only good news at the moment is that this discovery protocol "does not appear to suffer from multi-packet responses," making exploitation extremely hard for the time being, as attackers can only "reflect" small amounts of DDoS traffic.
However, hackers should never be underestimated, a reason why Ubiquiti Networks announced last week that it was preparing a patch, even if in its current form the protocol doesn't seem to be that harmful. Also as a side effect, as an attacker is trying to use this service for DDoS attacks, remote access to the device via its SSH service is also cut out.
While larger exploitation attempts have been spotted recently, Rapid7's Hart said that the first attacks trying to exploit the Ubiquiti discovery service had been spotted last July, when some Ubiquiti device owners reported problems accessing SSH services on their devices. Hart says that this discovery port isn't specific to one Ubiquiti device, and is found on a wide variety of the vendor's equipment, such as NanoStation , devices , AirGrid , devices , LiteBeam 43, devices , PowerBeam 40, , and others.
Hart says that while devices exposing port 10, are located all over the world, a large number of them are amassed in Brazil, the US, Spain, and Poland. Of the , devices exposing this port, 17, have also been defaced already, according to Hart, featuring non-standard hostnames. This means that these devices are also most likely running outdated firmware. Ubiquiti devices have been defaced on a regular basis in the past years. In , Ubiquiti devices were defaced again after hackers accessed devices, changed hostnames, but also access credentials --username "mother" and password "[expletive]er".
Device owners and ISP employees worried about attacks against their devices can follow this advice from Ubiquiti on how to disable the discovery service on their devices. Over 20 years of employee data leaked during McMenamins ransomware attack.
Correct me if im wrong. Yes you can. But from an external view, IPs are all the same, regardless of whether they belong to fix IP packages or dynamic IP packages. A sad day when the best way to protect your network is with a configurable router that is well configured. At one time, even google appeared on my blacklist and you still still find all consumer routers still vulnerable to the pineapple hak and similar hacks when there are cisco tutorials more than a decade old that describe how to configure a cisco switch to protect against this, unfortunately it requires configurable hardware.
I just moved home. I do not know for setting to connect the internet. Details of the hack: 1. As always—stay secure. Astound us with your intelligence Cancel reply. Hey Lololo, Most routers have some sort of vulnerability, so depending on which router you use you could be susceptible to an attack. Hi BingBang, Not really.
Regards, Keith. Read more. Such a dedicated radio affords frequency agility — meaning all available Wi-Fi channels are monitored constantly for threats — not just the channels the AP is using.
Miercom test professionals recognized that WatchGuard has been gearing its cloud-managed AP roadmap with unique security feature sets.
From a deployment perspective, network and security administrators will find a simple solution where the UniFi APs continue to connect Wi-Fi users as usual and the WatchGuard APs act as a sort of Wireless Intrusion Prevention System WIPS sentry, constantly monitoring the air space and wired network for presence of any of the six threats.
Thankfully, there is a solution to the problem: the Trusted Wireless Environment. The Trusted Wireless Environment framework succinctly defines the six Layer 2 Wi-Fi hacks that affect nearly every business today and provides a simple test criterion to determine if a Wi-Fi network is protected from each type of attack.
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