FBI to America: Reboot Your Routers, Right Now

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FBI to America: Reboot Your Routers, Right Now

The FBI has issued a dire warning to everyone who has a router in their home. The Internet Crime Complaint Center sent a rare Public Service Announcement declaring: "Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide."

 

The hackers are using VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers, the FBI said. "VPNFilter is able to render small office and home office routers inoperable," the FBI warns. "The malware can potentially also collect information passing through the router. Detection and analysis of the malware’s network activity is complicated by its use of encryption."

 

The feds recommends "any owner of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of infected devices." They also advise to consider disabling remote management settings on devices, use encryption, upgrade firmer and choose new and different passwords, which is pretty much best practice anyway.

 

The IC3, formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center was renamed in October 2003 to include this kind of attack. Their stated mission "is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners."

 

Today, that means telling you to reboot your router, so hop to it.

 

http://www.orrazz.com/2018/05/fbi-to-america-reboot-your-routers.html

[dinarham]

Not long ago ,our manager received an alarming message that the energy  at our mom and pop would be shut off immediately due to serious past due charges . She freaked out and could have looked up on the  'pute  that this was not the case . She was ordered to go to the nearest place  {walgeens}  to purchase some kind of prepaid cards to the tune of $1200 . Walgreens took our $1200 cash money .  We were on this pretty quick , we were not behind on our bill , it was a scam . Since Walgreens had our money ,we called the police there . Walgreens would not relinquish the money and the police could do nothing 

[Muleslayer]

It is called scareware!

i have seen “Microsoft” tell people they have been watching porn!

you must take computers with a grain of salt.

remember you are the human, you know where to unplug the frickin machine!

[js214]

4 hours ago, dinarham said:

Not long ago ,our manager received an alarming message that the energy  at our mom and pop would be shut off immediately due to serious past due charges . She freaked out and could have looked up on the  'pute  that this was not the case . She was ordered to go to the nearest place  {walgeens}  to purchase some kind of prepaid cards to the tune of $1200 . Walgreens took our $1200 cash money .  We were on this pretty quick , we were not behind on our bill , it was a scam . Since Walgreens had our money ,we called the police there . Walgreens would not relinquish the money and the police could do nothing 

But you had the balance on the pre-paid card.. hmm