{"id":11515,"date":"2019-08-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2021-07-26T03:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:06:38","slug":"mifi-4g-hotspots-are-vulnerable-to-hacking-use-a-vpn-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/mifi-4g-hotspots-are-vulnerable-to-hacking-use-a-vpn-to-protect-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"MiFi 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking, use a VPN to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many popular MiFi devices used as 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking. A DEFCON 27 talk by Pen Test Partners revealed command injection and remote code execution vulnerabilities in popular 4G hotspots and MiFi routers made by ZTE, Netgear, TP-Link, and Huawei. Affected models include the Netgear Nighthawk M1, the ZTE MF910 and the ZTE MF920, as well as TP-Link M7350. The full list of CVEs and more information from the security researchers that cracked these devices can be found at the Pen Test Partners\u2019 blogpost on the matter titled: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentestpartners.com\/security-blog\/reverse-engineering-4g-hotspots-for-fun-bugs-and-net-financial-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reverse Engineering 4G Hotspots for fun, bugs and net financial loss<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The security researchers discovered and disclosed these vulnerabilities to the affected companies earlier this year and might even have more to release in the future. Though some of the affected MiFi devices have been patched, some have not and therein lies the larger security issue affecting MiFi hotspot devices. Pen Test Partners\u2019 psuedonymous security researcher G Richter articulated the long lasting danger of these 4G hotspot vulnerabilities his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defcon.org\/html\/defcon-27\/dc-27-speakers.html#g%20richter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DEFCON talk summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[\u2026] a lot of existing 4G modems and routers are pretty insecure. We found critical remotely-exploitable flaws in a selection of devices from variety of vendors, without having to do too much work. Plus, there\u2019s only a small pool of OEMs working seriously with cellular technologies, and their hardware (&amp; software dependencies) can be found running in all sorts of places. Their old 4G, 3G and even 2G-era code is going to be running in these 5G-capable devices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the looming deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/why-5g-is-a-huge-future-threat-to-privacy\/\">5G everywhere<\/a>, the existing companies that are deploying and maintaining 4G networks and selling the 4G routers that consumers need to use to access said network are the ones that we\u2019re stuck with for 5G. One of the concerns is that many of the vulnerable hardware won\u2019t ever be recalled or updated and will remain vulnerable even as it is sold to unknowing consumers. The researchers contacted ZTE about one particular model that was vulnerable and ZTE responded that since that particular model wasn\u2019t being updated anymore. However, ZTE still sells that model (MF910) to unknowing customers.<\/p>\n<h2>MiFi routers are just part of 4G LTE\u2019s security vulnerabilities<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/new-4g-lte-vulnerabilities-allow-attackers-to-view-and-manipulate-traffic-to-your-smartphone\/\">4G LTE is also vulnerable<\/a> even when you aren\u2019t using a hotspot. Earlier this year, a group of researchers from KAIST revealed dozens of security vulnerabilities that allow hackers to invade your privacy. Many of those remain unpatched. Even the batch of security vulnerabilities from 2018 that allowed for spoofing, tracking, and spamming is still not guarded against on every device. In fact, it will never be. Whether by willing negligence, as in ZTE\u2019s case, actual legitimate end of life and support timelines, or pure user negligence to install the security updates provided by responsible hardware and software makers\u2026 there will always be users of insecure devices and insecure networks.<\/p>\n<p>For pure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/opsec-staying-private-under-surveillance\/\">OpSec<\/a> purposes, the logical conclusion is to take matters into your own hands and use another layer of encryption and IP address obfuscation by using a VPN. If you can\u2019t trust the network that you\u2019re on \u2013 which these leaks show us is the case 100% of the time \u2013 then you need to take your security and privacy into your own hands by using a VPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many popular MiFi devices used as 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking. A DEFCON 27 talk by Pen Test Partners revealed command injection and remote code execution vulnerabilities in popular 4G hotspots and MiFi routers made by ZTE, Netgear, TP-Link, and Huawei. Affected models include the Netgear Nighthawk M1, the ZTE MF910 and the ZTE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/mifi-4g-hotspots-are-vulnerable-to-hacking-use-a-vpn-to-protect-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiFi 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking, use a VPN to protect yourself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,1941,1937],"tags":[1522,1523,1521],"class_list":["post-11515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-news","category-surveillance","category-vpn","tag-4g-hotspot","tag-4g-router","tag-mifi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MiFi 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking, use a VPN to protect yourself<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many popular MiFi devices used as 4G hotspots are vulnerable to hacking. 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