{"id":1503,"date":"2018-05-23T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2018-05-23T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:26:47","slug":"new-router-malware-might-be-affecting-your-home-office-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2018\/05\/new-router-malware-might-be-affecting-your-home-office-router\/","title":{"rendered":"New Router Malware might be affecting your home\/office router"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Talos:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2018\/05\/VPNFilter.html<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given our observations with this threat, we assess with high confidence that this list is incomplete and other devices could be affected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>LINKSYS DEVICES:<\/h4>\n<p>E1200<br \/>\nE2500<br \/>\nWRVS4400N<\/p>\n<h4>MIKROTIK ROUTEROS VERSIONS FOR CLOUD CORE ROUTERS:<\/h4>\n<p>1016<br \/>\n1036<br \/>\n1072<\/p>\n<h4>NETGEAR DEVICES:<\/h4>\n<p>DGN2200<br \/>\nR6400<br \/>\nR7000<br \/>\nR8000<br \/>\nWNR1000<br \/>\nWNR2000<\/p>\n<h4>QNAP DEVICES:<\/h4>\n<p>TS251<br \/>\nTS439 Pro<\/p>\n<p>Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software<\/p>\n<h4>TP-LINK DEVICES:<\/h4>\n<p>R600VPN<\/p>\n<p>WIRED has an article about this cybersecurity hazard here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/vpnfilter-router-malware-outbreak\/<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paywall\">WIRED has reached out to Netgear, TP-Link, Linksys, MicroTik, and QNAP for comment on the VPNFilter malware. Netgear responded in a statement that users should update their routers&#8217; firmware, change any passwords they&#8217;ve left as the default, and disable a &#8220;remote management&#8221; setting that hackers are known to abuse, steps it outlines in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kb.netgear.com\/000058814\/Security-Advisory-for-VPNFilter-Malware-on-Some-Routers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security advisory about the VPNFilter malware<\/a>. The other companies have yet to respond to WIRED&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Talos: https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2018\/05\/VPNFilter.html Given our observations with this threat, we assess with high confidence that this list is incomplete and other devices could be affected. LINKSYS DEVICES: E1200 E2500 WRVS4400N MIKROTIK ROUTEROS VERSIONS FOR CLOUD CORE ROUTERS: 1016 1036 1072 NETGEAR DEVICES: DGN2200 R6400 R7000 R8000 WNR1000 WNR2000 QNAP DEVICES: TS251 TS439 Pro Other QNAP &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2018\/05\/new-router-malware-might-be-affecting-your-home-office-router\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Router Malware might be affecting your home\/office router&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19,22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-mac","category-computers-windows","category-security","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-of","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}