FBI says to reboot your routers

[me just sayin]

Might be a good time to reboot your router, and while you are at it, make sure you have the latest firmware installed on it and change your password. That is the easy way out. They are saying you really need to reset your router. Seems the FBI is saying that alleged Russian hackers were at it again and infected hundreds of thousands of routers and attached network storage devices.

Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team first disclosed the existence of the malware on Wednesday. The detailed report said the malware infected more than 500,000 devices made by Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, QNAP, and TP-Link. Known as VPNFilter, the malware allowed attackers to collect communications, launch attacks on others, and permanently destroy the devices with a single command. The report said the malware was developed by hackers working for an advanced nation, possibly Russia, and advised users of affected router models to perform a factory reset, or at a minimum to reboot

FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices

 

[xeene]

Affected devices 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

Most of those infected are in Ukraine.