FBI Asked Us to Reboot Our Routers – That Didn’t Help… [Growing List of Routers Known to Be Affected]

FBI Asked Us to Reboot Our Routers – That Didn’t Help… [Growing List of Routers Known to Be Affected]

6 years ago
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https://wccftech.com/fbi-reboot-routers-didnt-help/

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a public service announcement at the end of last month, asking everyone to restart their routers. This was followed by calls from cybersecurity experts and private sector companies to reset routers. These calls were made to help researchers – and the FBI – to potentially disrupt the botnet created by the VPNFilter malware.

It now appears things weren’t as easy as they looked.