The Botnet ‚VPNFilter‘ referred to by the US Department of Justice – targets SOHO routers and network-access storage (NAS) devices which are hardware devices made up of several hard drives used to store data in a single location that can be accessed by multiple users. The Botnet ‚VPNFilter‘ uses several stages of malware. Although the second stage of malware which has the malicious capabilities described above can be cleared from a device by rebooting it the first stage of malware persists through a reboot making it difficult to prevent reinfection by the second stage