Misfortune Anyone? This Dangerous Vulnerability Could Be Lurking In Your Network Router

NEW YORK, NY – Misfortune Anyone? Today, WordFence [I really love these people], a company whom distributes a popular security plugin for WordPress websites, released a great article about a vulnerability on computer networks that is being exploited. With the article they also included a simple button which you can use to scan your network’s vulnerability, so that if you are vulnerable to this Internet router exploit, you will know about it ASAP and can begin hounding (non-stop bothering) your Internet service provider or ISP about it.

Half of the internet service providers we analyzed have routers with a very specific vulnerability. This vulnerability is known as the “misfortune cookie”. We will call it the MC vulnerability for short. It has been known for a few years and was first disclosed by CheckPoint in 2014. It is now being used to hack home routers. The MC vulnerability exists in a service that your ISP uses to remotely manage your home router. That service listens on a “port” number, which is 7547. Besides the MC vulnerability, this port can have other vulnerabilities.

To check if you’re safe, just visit the link above or this link and look for the SCAN ME BUTTON in the lower portion of the article.

To check if you’re safe, just visit the link above or this link and look for the SCAN ME BUTTON in the lower portion of the article.

John Colascione

About The Author: John Colascione is Chief Executive Officer of Internet Marketing Services Inc. He specializes in Website Monetization, is a Google AdWords Certified Professional, authored a ‘how to’ book called ”Mastering Your Website‘, and is a key player in several Internet related businesses through his search engine strategy brand Searchen Networks®