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[nrms]

Quote from PC Magazine:

"Researchers at DroneBL claim the worm, called psyb0t, is the first of its kind and has infiltrated an estimated 100,000 devices (routers).  According to a post on the DroneBL site, the botnet has already been used to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks and is thought to have the ability to use deep-packet inspection to harvest user names and passwords.

Vulnerable devices include any home router or modem that uses Linux Mipsel, and has an administration interface, sshd, or telnet in a DMZ, and has a weak password..."

Do any of dLinks routers fit into this category?

Thank you
NigelS

[Lycan]

With the exception of a few lower end routers, D-Links main line of routers are Ubicom IPoS based.

[nrms]

thankyou.  I have just upped the PW security to 378 bit strength, and I don't have remote administration option set, so hopefully I should be relatively safe; but a worrying development nevertheless. 

[Lycan]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. Our products rarely use linux based OS's currently.

[smlunatick]

With the exception of a few lower end routers, D-Links main line of routers are Ubicom IPoS based.

I would be nice to know a list on which routers that could be affected.  The worm is supposed to be spreading.

[EddieZ]

You can have a look around on the internet to compose a list of manufacturers. Most of Linksys' routers are potentially affected. AFAIK no Dlink consumer routers run Linux so none of the Dlink routers is affected.