VPNFilter router malware is a lot worse than everyone thought

More affected devices. More damage. And what looks like an escalation in attacks

By Richard Chirgwin

ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE: these are the vendors newly-named by Cisco’s Talos Intelligence as being exploited by the malware scum running the VPNFilter attacks, and the attack’s been spotted hitting endpoints behind vulnerable kit.

As well as the expanded list of impacted devices, Talos warned that VPNFilter now attacks endpoints behind the firewall, and now sports a “poison pill” to destroy an infected device if necessary.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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