Cisco has announced that 500,000 routers have been infected with malware called VPNFilter. The vendors of the devices are Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link networking equipment in the small and home office (SOHO) space, as well at QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
Cisco was the owner of Linksys until it sold that division to Belkin.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/belkin.html
Cisco is claiming that this malware is related to malware that attacked Ukrainian hosts.
Read the full article here:
Here's the CERT Alert on this malware:
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2018/05/23/VPNFilter-Destructive-Malware
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