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Arstechnica.com (by Dan Goodin - 5/23/2018) is reporting:
VPNFilter—as the modular, multi-stage malware has been dubbed—works on consumer-grade routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and on network-attached storage devices from QNAP, Cisco researchers said in an advisory. It’s one of the few pieces of Internet-of-things malware that can survive a reboot.
Antivirus provider Symantec issued its own advisory Wednesday that identified the targeted devices as:
What this means is that out of an abundance of caution, users of the devices listed above should do a factory reset as soon as possible, or at a minimum, they should reboot. People should then check with the manufacturer for advice. For more advanced users, the Cisco report provides detailed indictors of compromise and firewall rules that can detect exploits.
Both Cisco and Symantec are advising users of any of these devices to do a factory reset, a process that typically involves holding down a button in the back for five to 10 seconds.
Users should also change all default passwords, be sure their devices are running the latest firmware, and, whenever possible, disable remote administration. (Netgear officials in the past few hours started advising users of "some" router models to turn off remote management.
VPNFilter—as the modular, multi-stage malware has been dubbed—works on consumer-grade routers made by Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link, and on network-attached storage devices from QNAP, Cisco researchers said in an advisory. It’s one of the few pieces of Internet-of-things malware that can survive a reboot.
Antivirus provider Symantec issued its own advisory Wednesday that identified the targeted devices as:
- Linksys E1200
- Linksys E2500
- Linksys WRVS4400N
- Mikrotik RouterOS for Cloud Core Routers: Versions 1016, 1036, and 1072
- Netgear DGN2200
- Netgear R6400
- Netgear R7000
- Netgear R8000
- Netgear WNR1000
- Netgear WNR2000
- QNAP TS251
- QNAP TS439 Pro
- Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software
- TP-Link R600VPN
What this means is that out of an abundance of caution, users of the devices listed above should do a factory reset as soon as possible, or at a minimum, they should reboot. People should then check with the manufacturer for advice. For more advanced users, the Cisco report provides detailed indictors of compromise and firewall rules that can detect exploits.
Both Cisco and Symantec are advising users of any of these devices to do a factory reset, a process that typically involves holding down a button in the back for five to 10 seconds.
Users should also change all default passwords, be sure their devices are running the latest firmware, and, whenever possible, disable remote administration. (Netgear officials in the past few hours started advising users of "some" router models to turn off remote management.
