issue0315@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoDOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businessesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1411arrow-down19cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1402arrow-down1external-linkDOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businessesarstechnica.comissue0315@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square48fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareorclev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·5 months agoImportant detail left out of the TL;DR: The method of infection required that the device still had the default admin password. As long as you changed the admin password when you setup the device this wouldn’t have impacted you.
minus-squareBatman@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-25 months agoThanks for this important information. That is the 1st thing we do after getting a new Router. (change its username and password)
Important detail left out of the TL;DR: The method of infection required that the device still had the default admin password. As long as you changed the admin password when you setup the device this wouldn’t have impacted you.
Thanks for this important information. That is the 1st thing we do after getting a new Router. (change its username and password)