dugaduga
Senior Member
IoS & Android devices use broadcom Wifi chipsets, Israeli hackers pioneered a means of hijacking the chipset remotely. AsusWRT also uses broadcom. I'm curious if these attacks could be as easily done to an AsusWRT. This gives hackers hardware level access. Apparently separating the Wifi from the SoC is one of the few ways to help mitigate such an attack, other than chips protected with ASLR/DEP.
@RMerlin, see this black hat demonstration, starts at ~6:00
Given the scope of this, and the fact they can spread this worm from iphone to iphone automatically, it makes me curious if it is possible that such an attack could occur, jumping from wifi router to wifi router... or from an infected mobile andriod/ios device to a asuswrt broadcom wifi router.
@RMerlin, see this black hat demonstration, starts at ~6:00
Given the scope of this, and the fact they can spread this worm from iphone to iphone automatically, it makes me curious if it is possible that such an attack could occur, jumping from wifi router to wifi router... or from an infected mobile andriod/ios device to a asuswrt broadcom wifi router.
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