How is a router worm like a flu pandemic? Medical researchers say an outbreak of influenza, similar to the devastating Spanish Flu of 1918, is likely in the near future. Somewhere in the world, a flu virus may be quietly mutating. We don’t know when the virus will emerge or the scale of the pandemic. But we do know there’s an historical precedent.
In like fashion, vulnerability researchers predict the emergence of router worms: malware designed to automatically spread from router to router like wildfire, thereby bringing down vast segments of network infrastructure. Although the idea has existed as a possibility for almost two decades, no actual instances have yet occurred.
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