The media has been reporting on the spread of the “Benevolent Malware” called Wifatch that is said to be infecting over 10,000 home routers worldwide. Wifatch was discovered by security researchers at Symantec and “attacks” home routers it finds that are running the telnet protocol in an unsecured way. Wifatch then installs itself into that […]
Yesterday, cybersecurity firm Symantec reported on a new piece of malware called Linux.Wifatch that attacks Linux-based home routers. And by “attack” we mean that it patches security holes that it finds to make the routers safer. Hey, wait…. That’s right, this router malware does not modify the user’s DNS settings nor does it launch a distributed […]