WEIRD NEWS
Reboot Your Internet Router NOW! Reboot your internet router now! That's what the FBI is telling the users of some 500,000 devices believed to be infected with powerful Russian malware capable of intelligence-collecting, software monitoring, and disabling routers, according to the New York Times. Network technology company Cisco Systems and antivirus company Symantec first issued a warning last Wednesday about the routers, which the company said have been compromised in a possible effort to lay the groundwork for a cyber-sabotage operation against targets in Ukraine. According to ArsTechnica, the so-called VPNFilter malware uses three distinct stages in order to send gathered data back to the dark actors, who've been identified as the Russian government-linked hacker group Fancy Bear. While the first stage can survive rebooting, the second and third reportedly cannot. Routers from Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, QNAP, and TP-Link are reportedly those vulnerable to the malware, but...