BT Homehub Easily Hacked

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BT Homehub users should take great care as a new vulnerability allows hackers to “own” their router without knowing the administrator password. More worrying is the bad guys can then own you by customising the router configuration to allow the theft of credentials, data, services supported by the router and  eavesdropping of VOIP calls.

A demo of this in action has also been provided:

There is no reported fix from BT yet. The workaround is to avoid visiting malicious websites that take advantage of the vulnerability!

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