Tag Archives: wipers

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

Getty Images reader comments 100 One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all other attempts to revive them. “The routers now just sit there with a steady red light on the front,” one… Read More »

Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out >10k Viasat modems

Enlarge / A Viasat Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of Europe earlier this month—has confirmed a theory by third-party researchers that new wiper malware with… Read More »