Vincent Dubroeucq

Visit your blog posts listing page, or a single post page, and open up the WordPress customizer.
Under Tiny Thumbnail Settings, choose or upload your default image. That’s it !
Enjoy !

Tiny Default Thumbnail

Allows you to add a default featured image to posts. Just add a default image in your customizer settings !

tsaiid

Featured Image via URL is a plugin to generate the featured image of post from the image url specified. 
The image will be fetched back and saved into the Media Library with all supported sizes. 
If the featured image is already present, the plugin will do nothing.
This plugin is modified from Auto Post Thumbnail by adityamooley.
For more details, see http://tsai.it/project/wordpress-plugins/featured-image-via-url/

Featured Image via URL

Automatically generate the Featured Image from the specified image url in post.

Tiny Default Thumbnail vs Featured Image via URL