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.

A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

Thousands of Asus routers have been compromised due to a newly discovered botnet called ‘AyySSHush.’ The stealth attack was detected in March 2025 by cybersecurity firm GreyNoise, which reportedly ...

A coalition of U.S., U.K., and allied cyber agencies has issued a joint advisory warning that China-linked groups are hijacking home and small-office routers, IoT, and smart devices to build covert ...

Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm ...

Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...

The FCC has issued a temporary waiver that allows already-authorized foreign-made routers to keep receiving software and firmware updates, including security patches and compatibility fixes, until at ...

A global Internet of Things (IoT) botnet campaign, dubbed "Ballista," has been targeting unpatched TP-Link routers since the beginning of 2025. The botnet exploits a remote code execution ...

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Earlier this week, security agencies from 10 countries, including the NSA, DOJ, NCSC, and others, published a new paper ...

International cyber agencies are sounding the alarm that China-nexus hackers have quietly pivoted to a new playbook, turning ...