05-30-2018, 06:49 AM
Because everyone should believe anything that gingernut says? Yeah right! Anything he doesn't agree with he labels "fake news".
There has been several reports about this attack over the last month or so on several tech news sites. Ars Technica has a couple of stories about it, the most recent was only a few days ago.
This isn't the first security alert about routers either, there was a big one last year where several thousand was compromised, that was well reported and verified.
To answer the question about VPN. No it isn't just affecting VPN users, it hits beyond that and takes control of your router, there is also no non technical way of knowing if you're affected or not, so a simple router reboot is the safest way to mitigate it. Rebooting won't get rid of stage one, but it will clear stage two and three from the router. To get rid of all three you need to do a factory reset of the router, that clears everything out.
There has been several reports about this attack over the last month or so on several tech news sites. Ars Technica has a couple of stories about it, the most recent was only a few days ago.
This isn't the first security alert about routers either, there was a big one last year where several thousand was compromised, that was well reported and verified.
To answer the question about VPN. No it isn't just affecting VPN users, it hits beyond that and takes control of your router, there is also no non technical way of knowing if you're affected or not, so a simple router reboot is the safest way to mitigate it. Rebooting won't get rid of stage one, but it will clear stage two and three from the router. To get rid of all three you need to do a factory reset of the router, that clears everything out.