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@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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