Quote:Researchers from Cisco Talos Intelligence Group have uncovered even more capabilities of the highly sophisticated multi-stage malware platform VPNFilter, making it one of the few known malicious frameworks of this complexity.

As detailed in their report, Talos Intelligence has been researching VPNFilter for months since its initial discovery at the beginning of 2018 when the malware was estimated to have infected at least 500K devices from 54 countries around the globe at its peak.

In their initial report, the security researchers said that VPNFilter was capable of compromising a massive range of Internet-connected devices, from MikroTik, Linksys, NETGEAR, and TP-Link routers to QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices.