‘We’re defending our homeland’: FBI remotely scrubs Russian malware from thousands of compromised devices – series of FBI engineered commands sent to compromised home and small office routers disrupted GRU botnet targeting military, government, and critical infrastructure
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The FBI used court-authorization to remotely reset thousands of compromised home and small office routers, kicking the GRU out of sensitive networks.
  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I retired my tp-link Touter over 10 years ago when I learned of their security problems and that they are Chinese.

    I hope most other people Savvy enough to buy their own routers rather than just take the one from the isp, would also be smart enough to research the routers for security.

    That’s not to say we get it right, but at least we try. I use Asus and installed the open-source firmware that has over the air updates that I can review before I install. It receives regular security fixes, and I block all ports except one that I use for certificate backed VPN.

    Hopefully, it does not have a backdoor like the ISP routers. In that case, all bets are off.