Microsoft Reveals Flaws Allowing Hacking of Netgear Routers

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Microsoft identified vulnerabilities in Netgear routers while investigating the device fingerprinting functionality in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The company said in a blog post that it worked closely with the Netgear security team to resolve these problems as quickly and effectively as possible. 

The bug was revealed after the management port of the DGN-2200v1 router was trying to be accessed by a device that did not belong to an IT staff member. The researchers investigated whether the connection had any security flaws that may be exploited in a hypothetical attack scenario because the connection had been flagged as abnormal by the machine learning algorithms. 

Hackers can gain access to the router administration interface without any authentication

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