The FBI is advising people to reboot their routers after foreign cyber criminals hacked into them

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• The FBI is warning the public that foreign cyber criminals have compromised "hundreds of thousands" of router devices in homes and small offices around the world.
• The FBI said the criminals used a VPNFilter malware to collect people's information and exploit their devices.
• The criminals' motives are unknown, and the FBI is advising people to reboot their router devices.

The FBI warned on Friday that foreign cyber criminals had compromised “hundreds of thousands” of home and small office router devices around the world which direct traffic on the internet by forwarding data packets between computer networks.

In a public service announcement, the FBI it has discovered that the foreign cyber criminals used a VPNFilter malware that can collect peoples’ information, exploit their devices and also block network traffic.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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