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GNUCitizen said they have found a serious security bug in the BT Home Hub that could let hackers steal identities and commit other types of fraud by controlling calls routed over the internet.

With BT’s Home Hub a widely used router, the ability reach many homes is a serious threat to many customers as the bug can still be sent out even if the default password for the hub has been changed. For the bug to activate, a user of VoIP would have to visit a website that has some kind of malicious code.

Adrian Pastor, one of the hackers GNUCitizen, said that “we believe this is gonna be very hot in the VoIP fraud arena”, in an email.

To resolve the issue, BT has disabled the Remote Assistance features that allow support professionals to gain control over the device, according to Mr Pastor.

As a result however, Mr Pastor said: “Now we have been able to come up with a new technique to steal VoIP calls”.

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Tags: bt home hub, email, fraud, hackers, home hub, malicious code, remote assistance, security bug, serious security, support professionals

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