Following the recent news regarding the FBI warning people to turn their routers off and back on again to halt the spread of the VPNFilter Malware, Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic commented below.
Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic:
This is another example of mass surveillance from citizens internet activity that could be used to influence fakes news, propaganda or redirect traffic to malicious websites that contains more harmful malware. I am not worried about their ability to shut down a router as today most people can simply restart it or use alternative methods to access the internet via smart phones.”
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