[App_rpt-users] Router Malware Warnings from FBI

[Kirk Just Kirk]

I am pretty sure this is aimed at people that either leave them blank or
set to ADMIN for the user and PASSWORD for the password....
Some "DON'TS"....
Use your pets name for a password....
Use your callsign for a user name.....

Some Common Sense and all is well....



On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Bryan St Clair <bryan at k6cbr.us> wrote:

> It is a threat to anyone who doesn't maintain a strong login credential
> set and/or who doesn't update firmware.   If you do both these, you are
> very unlikely to have been infected.
>
> No harm in a reboot (for many reasons) however daily may not be needed.
>
> Remember, firmware updates patch known vulnerability issues that these
> malware infections exploit.
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2018, 08:20 Mike <mm at midnighteng.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just in the case you have not heard the news of the past week,
>>
>> There is a warning issued by the FBI about a potential malware threat to
>> routers.
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-
>> cybersecurity-202/2018/05/24/the-cybersecurity-202-the-fbi-
>> is-trying-to-thwart-a-massive-russia-linked-hacking-campaign/
>> 5b058e921b326b492dd07e55/?utm_term=.3ecb87d65a41
>>
>>
>> While I did try to dig deeper on this over the weekend, I could not
>> obtain the grimy details.
>>
>> But it looks like a sleeper so you might want to do due diligence and
>> reset your router to clear the ram.
>>
>> When I say sleeper, I mean it has yet to perform new duties so it might
>> not affect anything now.
>>
>> I'm clearing all of mine once a day till I find out more. Just a FYI.
>>
>>
>> ...mike/kb8jnm
>>
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