VPNFilter now has ‘even greater capabilities,’ research shows
VPNFilter, the malware framework that co-opted half a million routers into a botnet earlier this year, has “even greater capabilities” than previously documented, new research shows. Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence unit, said it recently found seven more VPNFilter modules that “add significant functionality to the malware,” whose botnet loomed over Ukraine ahead of a key soccer match in late May as well as an important public holiday in that country. Among the newly discovered capabilities of VPNFilter are the ability to exploit endpoint devices via compromised network gear, plus “data filtering and multiple encrypted tunneling capabilities to mask command and control and data exfiltration traffic,” Talos researcher Edmund Brumaghin wrote in a blog post Wednesday. The VPNFilter-enabled botnet had the ability to “brick” or disable thousands of devices, so researchers and U.S. law enforcement urgently sought to raise awareness of and mitigate the threat. The same week that Talos exposed VPNFilter, […]
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