What routers are affected? Thinkstock The FBI’s security notice suggests that all router owners reboot their devices. They can manipulate everything going in and out of the device.” That's a much greater threat than initially feared. As Craig Williams, a senior technology leader and global outreach manager at Talos, explained to Ars Technica, 'They can modify your bank account balance so that it looks normal while at the same time they’re siphoning off money and potentially PGP keys and things like that. That means a hacker can manipulate what you see on your screen while still performing malicious tasks on your screen. Better known as a 'man-in-the-middle' attack, this means that bad actors can use this vulnerability to intercept network traffic and inject malicious code without the user's knowledge.
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