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    FBI to Americans: Reboot your internet routers, right now

    The FBI has issued a dire warning to everyone who has a router in their home.

    The Internet Crime Complaint Center sent a rare Public Service Announcement declaring: "Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide."

    The hackers are using VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers, the FBI said. "VPNFilter is able to render small office and home office routers inoperable," the FBI warns. "The malware can potentially also collect information passing through the router. Detection and analysis of the malware’s network activity is complicated by its use of encryption."

    Federal officials are recommending any owner of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of infected devices. They also advise disabling remote management settings on devices, using encryption, upgrading firmware and choosing new and different passwords, which is pretty much the best practice anyway.

    The IC3, formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center was renamed in October 2003 to include this kind of attack. Their stated mission is to "provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners."

    Today, that means telling you to reboot your internet router, so hop to it.

    http://www.wyff4.com/article/vpnfilt...outer/20952940

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    Honestly, sounds to me like the FBI wants everyone to reboot their routers so FBI backdoor software can access everyone’s info.

    They pulled this shit a few years ago. Had every news outlet telling everyone to change all of their passwords immediately to all of their email, banking, and credit card accounts or their would be horrific hacking. Seemed fishy.

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