Article 3R3VZ The FBI tells everybody to reboot their router

The FBI tells everybody to reboot their router

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This CERTadvisory warns of over 500,000 home routers that have been compromisedby the VPNFilter malware and is advising everybody to reboot their routersto (partially) remove it. This TalosIntelligence page has a lot more information about VPNFilter, though alot apparently remains unknown. "At the time of this publication, wedo not have definitive proof on how the threat actor is exploiting theaffected devices. However, all of the affected makes/models that we haveuncovered had well-known, public vulnerabilities. Since advanced threatactors tend to only use the minimum resources necessary to accomplish theirgoals, we assess with high confidence that VPNFilter required no zero-dayexploitation techniques."
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