New VPNFilter malware targets 100,000s of networking devices worldwide (opens in new tab)

(blog.talosintelligence.com)

12 pointsiBotPeaches7y ago2 comments

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What's a good affordable router well supported by Tomato/OpenWRT, these days? (put differently: 2018's version of the Linksys WRT54G :)

EDIT: The article doesn't explicitly say that alternative firmwares like Tomato & OpenWRT are not exploitable, but it seems to me the rate at which they are maintained make them less easy targets. So this new flaw made me think now is a good time to replace my crappy router and its unmaintained vendor firmware with something more solid running Tomato/OpenWRT. Disagreements?

brodsky7y ago

As far as I understand, the vulnerability - and especially its ability to survive reboots - exploits Linux/busybox-based routers. One method of removal is described in this thread: https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=133006. So the best bet here (as much as i hate it) would be to switch to something that doesn't have a crontab.

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ronjouch7y ago

What's a good affordable router well supported by Tomato/OpenWRT, these days? (put differently: 2018's version of the Linksys WRT54G :)

brodsky7y ago

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