Russian Hackers Now Have The Power To Kill 500,000 Routers -- But The FBI Is Fighting Back
Just last month, the U.S. and U.K. governments officially blamed Russia for a large-scale attack on home and office routers. On Wednesday, cybersecurity researchers from Cisco Talos revealed their research into Russia-linked attacks that hit 500,000 routers, the majority of which were in Ukraine.
The hackers, said to be the same group that breached the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016, currently have the power to simultaneously kill the devices and take down the internet for vast numbers of people as a result, the researchers warned. The FBI announced late Wednesday it was dismantling the botnet.
The hackers have installed a malware known as VPNFilter on all those routers from a range of vendors, including Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear and TP-Link, which had publicly-known vulnerabilities. Victims were spread across a total of 54 countries, but most of the targets were based in Ukraine, where devices were being hacked at an "alarming rate," Cisco Talos wrote in its report. VPNFilter also had code similarities with another Russia-linked spy tool, BlackEnergy, which was previously used to attack Ukraine power providers.
The attacks go back to at least 2016 but, as in the DHS and the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warning in April, it appears the attackers are planning something significant further along the line. (The NCSC told Forbes it couldn't confirm if there was overlap across its research into Russian activity and Cisco's findings.)
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Here in Australia we don't call it half a million routers hacked, we call it the new "National Broadband Network(NBN)...
Every single house whole in Oz is being forced onto the National paranoia Broadband full AtoD (VoIP,Data) Network...
We now have an unofficial gov't walk in the front door fully automated monitoring/intrusion access to all digitised voice and PC comms via home routers/modems .
What is there left to hack anymore?
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The US is planning for a Trump-Putin summit, and experts say that means 'Putin already won'
The US and Russia are currently in talks to arrange a summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Experts say the US has nothing to gain and everything to lose from a meeting between Trump and Putin given current US-Russia relations and Trump's personal affinity for Putin.
"But that seems to be the pattern of Trump's dealmaking," said one former State Department official. "We move the US embassy to Jerusalem and get nothing in exchange. We give the North Koreans a summit and get nothing in exchange. We pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and get nothing in exchange. This is par for the course."
Experts say planned Trump-Putin summit means 'Putin already won' - Business Insider
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