Serious Russian virus caused more than half a million disabled router device around the world.

News sources reported that a very dangerous virus is attacking the router receivers so that more than half a million have been infected router and storage devices in many countries of the world, as it is likely that this virus has been design it by a group of hackers sponsored by Russia.The origin of this virus to year 2016 where discovered by Cisco Talos intelligence and Cisco cestmzalamriket which specializes in network security.Sources indicate that virus known as VPNFilter has many devices in more than 50 countries.Largely aimed at the small office routers and home.It was said that some enterprise routers also was hit by this malicious image as well as mainland network-attached storage devices and trademarked and tend to be used by companies, although some use in small offices and home spaces.Serious thing that this virus can collect data and communications using infected machines to run cyber attacks on other targets.More seriously, this virus also multiple capabilities designed to gather information so that it can intervene in the Internet connections capable of implementing self destruct which reboots the machine and makes it unusable.

This virus can also steal data Web sites and monitor industrial controllers or SCADA systems which are used in electrical networks and infrastructure and other plants with the ability to disconnect from the Internet to hundreds of thousands of victims around the world.All this risk that characterize this virus make us FBI issuing a warning accusing Russian computer thieves getting involved and being behind the attack, which damaged hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and had urged all users to download New updates from the manufacturers of these brands of routers.Added to separate the power cable from the router for 30 seconds.