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The FBI wants you to reboot your internet routers

Saturday, 26 May 2018, 17:50 MJA Uncategorized 18

DC: ‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Internet Routers Compromised By Foreign Actors, FBI Says.

The FBI issued a warning Friday to Americans with internet routers in their homes or offices to reboot their routers immediately after the agency discover hundreds of thousands of routers had been compromised by foreign actors.

“The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices,” the warning said. “Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide.”

“The size and scope of the infrastructure impacted by VPNFilter malware is significant,” the agency said. More than 500,000 routers have been infected, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.

VPNFilter is malware intended for internet routers that can steal data and has a “kill switch” designed to destroy the infected router on command and “render small office and home office routers inoperable.” The FBI says that the “initial infection vector for this malware is currently unknown.”  more here

SNIP: Has anyone heard about this? Keep in mind, this is the DailyBeast and the FBI reporting. lol

 

More info on this, click here. 
h/t Venturaguy.

VPNFilter: New Router Malware with Destructive Capabilities

Unlike most other IoT threats, malware can survive reboot.

 […]Q: What devices are known to be affected by VPNFilter?

A: To date, VPNFilter is known to be capable of infecting enterprise and small office/home office routers from Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, and TP-Link, as well as QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices. These include:

  • Linksys E1200

  • Linksys E2500

  • Linksys WRVS4400N

  • Mikrotik RouterOS for Cloud Core Routers: Versions 1016, 1036, and 1072

  • Netgear DGN2200

  • Netgear R6400

  • Netgear R7000

  • Netgear R8000

  • Netgear WNR1000

  • Netgear WNR2000

  • QNAP TS251

  • QNAP TS439 Pro

  • Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software

  • TP-Link R600VPN

18 Comments on The FBI wants you to reboot your internet routers

  4. About half BS – just rebooting it will not prevent them from compromising it a second time
    “…disabling remote management settings on devices and secure with strong passwords and encryption when enabled.” – most routers I have seen come with remote management disabled so unless you turned it on you should be safe

    “More than 500,000 routers have been infected, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.” and the next paragraph says “The FBI says that the “initial infection vector for this malware is currently unknown.”
    Which is it?

    And if the DNC used a “Home and Small Office” router then they deserved to be hacked

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  9. The 500,000 number was selected at random. If they had said 30,000,000 routers were infected, general panic would have ensued. Since there is no way to verify the 500k number, all those infected will just assume they were one of the relatively few unlucky ones.

    Interesting that this hit just at the same time as the EU imposed it’s new regulations that fucked everything up.

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  14. Ah-hum! What a pant load. Going to take more than playing McAfee to restore any semblance of trust now. It’s going to take waiting until new generations come along and the current generations die out.

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