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FBI Tells Router Users To Reboot Now To Kill Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices

Posted on Friday May 25, 2018  |  Announcements, Government, News, privacy, The Internet

The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices. Ars Technica reports: 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.

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