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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 06 2018, @10:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-patches dept.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning that a new malware threat has rapidly infected more than a half-million consumer devices. To help arrest the spread of the malware, the FBI and security firms are urging home Internet users to reboot routers and network-attached storage devices made by a range of technology manufacturers.

"The growing menace — dubbed VPNFilter — targets Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link networking equipment in the small and home office space, as well as QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices, according to researchers at Cisco."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/fbi-kindly-reboot-your-router-now-please/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @04:40PM (#689925)

    1. Change the router's password to something that isn't one of the most common 10,000

    Do you know where hunter2 lands on that list? Asking for a friend ...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:02PM (#690019)

    Not an exact measure, but you can check password usage here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords [haveibeenpwned.com]