Connect: Exploited Asterisk servers are to blame for recent vishing attacks

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Exploited Asterisk servers are to blame for recent vishing attacks

Recent vishing attacks have been conducted by criminal taking advantage of a known bug in older Asterisk PBX systems. According to an FBI advisory published on The Internet Crime Complaint Center the attackers exploited the known bug to gain unauthorized access to numerous Asterisk PBX systems and later used these systems as mass auto-dialers. The attackers generated thousends of calls to victims in which they attempted to extract sensitive information from the victims.
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