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Linksys announces the appointment of Harry Dewhirst to chief executive officer effective immediately. Dewhirst takes on the role after leading product and business development for the company as vice president.
Linksys and Fortinet announced a strategic alliance with the intent to further secure and optimize the performance and management of home networks in today's work from home environment. Together, Fortinet, Linksys, and FIT will offer connectivity and security and unparalleled quality of service to organizations that need to provide seamless and secure connectivity for their employees to efficiently work from home.
Researchers identified the attack last month, and earlier this week Linksys hit reset on users of its Linksys Smart Wi-Fi application to mitigate against future and past attacks. Linksys representatives told Threatpost that customers are being notified gradually and that all customers should be made aware of the incident and forced password reset "Over the next week or so".
Linksys has prompted users to reset passwords after learning that hackers were leveraging stolen credentials to change router settings and direct customers to malware. The security firm said at the time that the attack, which was mainly targeting Linksys routers, was aimed at modifying DNS IP addresses to ultimately direct users to the Oski infostealer.
Router biz Linksys has reset all its customers' Smart Wi-Fi account passwords after cybercrims accessed a bunch and redirected hapless users to COVID-19 themed malware. Hackers with access to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi accounts were changing home routers' DNS server settings.
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Over 20 models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers have been found to have vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could allow attackers to overload a router and force a reboot, deny user access, leak...