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CME router Hack

Muhammad Talha
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We are using 2901 router someone hack the router and use our internal extension for dialing international calling outside ? How it is possible that someone use our internal extension.

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Leo Laohoo
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Hall of Fame

We are using 2901 router someone hack the router and use our internal extension for dialing international calling outside ?

No one hacked into the router.  I suspect the culprit brute force the SIP credentials between the router and the SIP provider and used that to make unauthorized calls. 

Joshua Anderson
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

It's called Toll Fraud, and there is an article that discusses the problem, the risks, and the mitigations:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice-unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-express/107626-cme-toll-fraud.html