{"id":3142,"date":"2018-05-25T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2018-05-25T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:44:59","slug":"fbi-seizes-control-of-a-massive-botnet-that-infected-over-500000-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=3142","title":{"rendered":"FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shortly after Cisco’s released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we reported about a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware that infected over 500,000 devices<\/a>\u00a0in 54 countries and likely been designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group in a possible effort to cause havoc in Ukraine, according to an early report<\/a> published by Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Dubbed VPNFilter<\/a> by the Talos researchers, the malware is a multi-stage, modular platform that targets small and home offices (SOHO) routers and storage devices from Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR, and TP-Link, as well as network-access storage (NAS) devices.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Shortly after Cisco’s released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack. Yesterday we reported about a piece of highly sophisticated IoT…<\/p>\n

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