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Re: CPE dns hijacking malware


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:35:51 +0000


On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:

(2) DHCP hijacking daemon installed on the client, supplying the hijacker's DNS servers on a DHCP renewal.  Have seen 
both, the latter being more
common, and the latter will expand across the entire home subnet in time (based on your lease interval)

I'd (perhaps wrongly) assumed that this probably wasn't the case, as the OP referred to the CPE devices themselves as 
being malconfigured; it would be helpful to know if the OP can supply more information, and whether or not he'd a 
chance to examine the affected CPE/end-customer setups.

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