The FBI has issued a warning advising people to turn their routers off and back on again to help halt the spread of a dangerous piece of Russian malware.
The threat is known as VPNFilter.
“There is no easy way to tell if your device may be affected,” said Jody Westby, cybersecurity expert and CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC. “Since CISCO has said there are 500,000 devices affected in over 54 countries, I would just assume were are at risk and try to do something about it.”
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