Arris Routers Vulnerability Exposed

[engine]

Some routers from Arris used by many companies, including AT&T, appear to have vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take full control of the router. The report suggests it'll be surprising if the exploit is not already being employed.
[zdnet.com...]

[Peter_S]

The shell also allows the attacker to control a module that's dedicated to injecting advertisements into unencrypted web traffic

This is the same story I reported here : [webmasterworld.com...]

Another reason to switch to HTTPS :-P

[martinibuster]

X-Finity routers use this brand. Not certain if they're this same model, but if you're on x-finity you may want to check that.