Big botnets filled with hijacked devices are nothing new, but this particular one is especially dangerous and might be hard ...

A newly identified botnet called KadNap has compromised thousands of Asus routers worldwide by exploiting weaknesses in the devices’ remote-access features, turning ordinary home networking equipment ...

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

The botnet’s preferred targets include Four-Faith and Neterbit routers or smart home devices. Experts from VulnCheck reported at the end of December that a vulnerability in Four-Faith industrial ...

A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered ...

The FCC has officially designated foreign-made routers as national security risks. Here’s what the new import ban means for ...

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S.

Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied ...

The FCC is moving to block new foreign-made internet routers from U.S. markets, warning that overseas supply chains pose ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...