The FBI is asking anyone with a small office or home office routers to turn off and restart the devices to help disrupt an international hacking ring.

Foreign cyber hackers have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide, according to a notice from the FBI. Read the notice HERE ( https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180525.aspx ).

The hackers used VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers. The malware is able to perform multiple functions, including possible information collection, device exploitation, and blocking network traffic.

The U.S. Department of Justice said the authors of the VPNFilter were part of the Sofacy group that answered directly to the Russian government, Reuters reported, and that Ukraine was the likely target of the attack.

The FBI has seized control of a key domain used to control routers, according to the (((Daily Beast))). Rebooting an infected router will redirect it to the domain that now is run by the U.S. government.

The domain seizure will help investigators identify infected devices and begin the process of removing infections.

http://www.wkow.com/story/38291289/2…omputer-router

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