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The Federal Bureau of Investigation urged Americans to reboot their routers after cybercriminals working under the name VPNFilter compromised more than 500,000 routers and other networking devices. The malware targets networking equipment in small office and home office spaces of Americans according to Cisco.

VPNFilter is able to steal website credentials and issue a self-destruct command, effectively rendering infected devices inoperable. Cisco researchers believe most compromised devices had known public exploits or default credentials that make compromising them relatively straightforward.

The malware targets specific networking equipment from the following manufacturers:

Affected Linksys Devices

• E1200
• E2500
• WRVS4400N

Affected MikroTik Cloud Core Routers

• 1016
• 1036
• 1072

Affected Netgear Devices

• DGN2200
• R6400
• R7000
• R8000
• WNR1000
• WNR2000

Affected QNAP Devices

• TS251
• TS439 Pro
• Other QNAP NAS devices running QTS software

Affected TP-Link Devices

• R600VPN

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