The FBI is asking everyone to reboot their routers immediately. In a public service announcement the FBI explains that it’s hoping that your actions will help the US government destroy a botnet before a Russian hacking group, Sofacy, can harden the malware’s defenses.

“The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot) the devices. Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide. The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers. The malware is able to perform multiple functions, including possible information collection, device exploitation, and blocking network traffic.

The FBI 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.”

Please visit the following links for additional information:

https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180525.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/technology/router-fbi-reboot-malware.html

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