<div dir="ltr">Wrong, I had to reread this.. what they don't make patches for are things that have not been discovered as being exploited yet... The fact that it's being exploited does not mean that it's known or disclosed.<div><br></div><div>I am quite aware of when this started - the rest of your statement I pretty much agree with though ;-)</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Bryan St Clair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@k6cbr.us" target="_blank">bryan@k6cbr.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">They don't make patches for something that hasn't been exploited yet. That's why a day 0 exists.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This started in 2016...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The affected models are older and I would bet, behind in updates. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Updates don't protect everything, just what was known in the past. 2016 is the past.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A good reason why it's tageted the Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link devices is their low update rate. Not the manufacturer, but the consumer.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 31, 2018, 10:06 JJC <<a href="mailto:cummingsj@gmail.com" target="_blank">cummingsj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Not entirely correct see inline....<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Bryan St Clair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@k6cbr.us" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bryan@k6cbr.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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. </div></blockquote><div>Not entirely accurate, there were 0days involved in this.. that means that the threat existed and was being exploited before a patch / firmware update was released.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">No harm in a reboot (for many reasons) however daily may not be needed.</div></div></blockquote><div>Agreed, and a reboot only clears the non-persistent mechanisms. And rest assured mechanisms exist for persistence...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Remember, firmware updates patch known vulnerability issues that these malware infections exploit.</div></div></blockquote><div>Correct "known" being the keyword, see comment #1 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> </div></div><div class="m_-9064312189841242021m_-2056542781993897811HOEnZb"><div class="m_-9064312189841242021m_-2056542781993897811h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 31, 2018, 08:20 Mike <<a href="mailto:mm@midnighteng.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mm@midnighteng.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Just in the case you have not heard the news of the past week,<br>
<br>
There is a warning issued by the FBI about a potential malware threat to <br>
routers.<br>
<br>
<a href="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" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-<wbr>cybersecurity-202/2018/05/24/<wbr>the-cybersecurity-202-the-fbi-<wbr>is-trying-to-thwart-a-massive-<wbr>russia-linked-hacking-<wbr>campaign/<wbr>5b058e921b326b492dd07e55/?utm_<wbr>term=.3ecb87d65a41</a><br>
<br>
<br>
While I did try to dig deeper on this over the weekend, I could not <br>
obtain the grimy details.<br>
<br>
But it looks like a sleeper so you might want to do due diligence and <br>
reset your router to clear the ram.<br>
<br>
When I say sleeper, I mean it has yet to perform new duties so it might <br>
not affect anything now.<br>
<br>
I'm clearing all of mine once a day till I find out more. Just a FYI.<br>
<br>
<br>
...mike/kb8jnm<br>
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