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Tuesday, 29 May 2018
quote [ More than 500,000 devices in at least 54 countries are believed to have been infected by the malware, known as VPNFilter.
The FBI made a bombshell announcement on Friday that is only starting to gain a bit of traction over the weekend. Russian hackers have developed a sophisticated malware system that has already infected hundreds of thousands of routers. The good news is that the recommendation on how to combat the infection is easy enough—turn it off and then turn it back on again. Anyone who has a home or small office router should go ahead and do that just to be safe. ] Reboot that router, it's about the least you can do.
#hacked & cracked #psa
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backSLIDER said @ 6:22am GMT on 29th May
It also could just be turning them over to the FBI but I guess that is still better then some shadow bot net from Russia. I wonder if this is using the NSA backdoors.
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conception said @ 4:29pm GMT on 29th May
As the FBI seized the domain the botnet was connecting to - this is correct.
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Anonynonymous said @ 1:40pm GMT on 29th May
Sorry, still too busy to do that, I think I'll roll the dice.
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ubie said @ 2:50pm GMT on 29th May
Sure, rebooting is easy enough, but how exactly does this solve the problem? Has a firmware update been pushed to every router known to man and just needs to reboot to complete the process? What is to keep this from happening again?
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conception said @ 4:28pm GMT on 29th May
FBI seized the domain the botnet was connecting to.
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HoZay said @ 5:38pm GMT on 29th May
rtfa?
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backSLIDER said @ 9:56pm GMT on 29th May
I haven't found anything saying what the attack vector was/is. So, there is really no way of knowing. That is why I postulated that it might be the MSS backdoor
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cb361 said @ 7:52pm GMT on 29th May
The FBI needs you to reboot your router. Pass this message on to all of your friends. Don't break the chain.
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knumbknutz said @ 12:34am GMT on 31st May
Fake news - we don't need to reboot our wireless routers comrades
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machpi said @ 6:17pm GMT on 31st May
Hmm. No mention of Arris routers in there, unless they fall under 'other.' Think I'll give it a pass for now
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