FBI Is Wrong: All Routers Need to Be Reset, What to Do

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/russian-router-malware,news-27288.html

by pwagenseil • 8 years ago

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AboutTheWhisles• 8 years ago

Where did this title come from? This isn't what the article says.

jsiepkes• 8 years ago

Probably from that the FBI previously said a reboot of your router was enough. Apparently it isn't.

rdiddly• 8 years ago

Rebooting is enough to get rid of stages 2 and 3, if present. To get rid of stage 1, you have to factory reset, and preferably overwrite the firmware too, even if it's already up-to-date.

More helpful than TFA or the FBI's announcements was this blog post, already featured on HN at least once and linked by commenters probably multiple times:

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html

snowy• 8 years ago

This article is wrong. It states: "MicroTik Cloud Core routers, mainly used by enterprises, may be affected if they run versions 1016, 1036 or 1072 of the MicroTik RouterOS.

Those are model numbers, not firmware versions. He lifted that from this Krebs artical (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/fbi-kindly-reboot-your-r...) which is also wrong.

All Mikrotik products running less than version 6.38.5 are vulnerable: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=134776

It makes me wonder what else is wrong....

FBI Is Wrong: All Routers Need to Be Reset, What to Do

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