Insufficient Router Security has People in India Prone to Cyber Assaults

The latest research report by digital security firm Avast states that many Indians, about 32%, haven't ever gone to the web admin protocol for altering login credentials of factory set-up. Almost 23% of people in India who logged into the web admin protocol of their routers still work with the login particulars that came by default with the devices. Merely 44% altered such login particulars. Moreover, among those who accessed the web admin protocol of their routers, 65% polled said they didn't ever make the firmware of their routers up-to-date.

Evidently as per the research, attackers exploit the lack of knowledge among people regarding router security. Indian consumers (33%) agreed that they logged into the interface of their routers a single time per annum or even less for knowing updates, whereas according to 39%, they didn't even know there was firmware in their routers which is referred to the already configured software inside hardware that needs to be updated for including into it security patches.

In May this year, some 7 lakhs routers worldwide were prone to malware attacks that were capable of stripping SSL, states the report. The particular malware called VPN Filter executed man-in-the-middle assaults for thrusting harmful payloads inside user traffic. The modular VPN Filter would scan all web-traffic including outgoing and incoming on end-users' network for garnering sensitive information, especially passwords. As of now, routers across 54 nations are impacted, these being NETGEAR, Linksys, Asus, Huawei and D-Link models.

According to Security Researcher Martin Hron from Avast, consumers of routers often misunderstand else overlook the device's security factor, but it is rather an extremely important device since through it one accesses the Internet.

With devices linked simultaneously while data sharing permitted among them even as outgoing and incoming traffic is managed, con actors conveniently target these devices for extracting confidential personal info, notably login particulars for banking websites, as well as exploiting the remaining shared systems.

Hron adds that fundamentally users should reset their routers' usernames and passwords given as default immediately when the devices are installed, while definitely see what firmware updates are in place.

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