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500,000 Devices Infected With Malware That Could Cut Users Off From The Internet

500,000 Devices Infected With Malware That Could Cut Users Off From The Internet

May 23, 2018

Via: Fortune
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Cisco’s cyber intelligence unit is warning that at least half a million routers and storage devices in 54 countries have been infected with a sophisticated malware program that it believes the Russian government plants to launch a cyber attack on Ukraine.

The company’s Talos unit said it has “high confidence” the Russian government is behind the software, which is called “VPN Filter,” since the latest hack shares some of the code used in previous Russian cyber attacks.

“The code of this malware overlaps with versions of the BlackEnergy malware—which was responsible for multiple large-scale attacks that targeted devices in Ukraine,” the unit said in a blog post. “While this isn’t definitive by any means, we have also observed VPNFilter, a potentially destructive malware, actively infecting Ukrainian hosts at an alarming rate, utilizing a command and control (C2) infrastructure dedicated to that country.”

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