![]() Packet sniffing and website credential theft.Worrying as that might be to UEFA, the Ukrainian government and football fans the world over, this malware is a multi purpose platform complete with plugins and is known to be capable of: Anybody know of any big events happening in Ukraine in the near future, maybe tomorrow? The immediate concern is that the infected devices will be used to launch a massive DDOS attack, probably against the long-suffering Ukraine. Given that most of us have at least one of those pieces of kit at home, not to mention all the IOTingTings out there, all outside of firewalls, added to the fact that Cisco Talos has identified at least 500,000 infected devices, this is a real big deal. It is suspected that this is a moving target with an on-going programme regularly bringing new devices to the slaughter (Silence Of The Lambs link removed before the policy police could do it). ![]() ![]() has been busy developing and deploying malware which infects edge and Internet of Ting TingsTM devices such as home and SoHO routers, Networked Attached Storage (NAS) devices and the like.ĭevices know to be potentially affected currently include Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, QNAP and TP-Link kit. It appears that for some considerable time, the outfit formerly known as Fancy Bear, APT28, Pawn Storm etc. Oh well, you can’t have everything, at least it has a name and a logo which, as regular readers know, is enough to float our boat. VPNFilter does have a logo, but even that is a little uninspiring – a trebuchet launching a large ball, not a cow in site. You can’t follow ‘VPNFilter’ with a mwahahaha or sinister organ music, can’t we have a proper name like Spectre, Ghost or even Dirty Cow? Fear not dear reader, what Talos misses out in the Malware naming department it really makes up for in the terrifying detail stakes. Cisco’s fantastic threat intelligence outfit Talos has discovered a huge, probably ‘state sponsored or affiliated’, highly sophisticated, modular, not to mention nasty piece of Malware which they have called, wait for it, VPNFilter. To protect your sanity, this blog is guaranteed GDPR free.
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