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RAX48 hacked?
So I purchased this router from Best Buy Canada last week. Installed it Wednesday night. Checked for firmware updates through the GUI and there weren't any. Thursday it locked up, had to reboot it...
Just happened to me this morning - RAX50-5400-AX6, firmware updated to V1.0.2.82_2.0.50 this past weekend.
Same happened for me today RAX50-5400-AX6, firmware version to V1.0.2.82_2.0.50
At the moment I haven no trust in this product and fell very insecure in my network security.
It's fairly obvious that these devices aren't 'hacked', the "Bernie_RAX50" SSID is actually part of the official hardware - apparently some kind of fallback, triggered by 'something' (sorry, I don't have any of those devices). Obviously this shouldn't happen and is grounds for (functional, apparently not security based) concerns to settle with support.
This happened to me on 7/20/2021. Network SSID was suddenly changed to "Bernie" for the 2.4Ghz and 5.0 Ghz band. The firmware version running is "V1.0.2.82_2.0.50". A full factory reset got the device up and runnign again. The RAX50 router is connected to s Starlink modem.
Does NetGear have a fix for this?
- I had a similar issue when the encryption is wpa3. After changing it to wpa2 the issue is gone.