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 ...

Old TP-Link router flaw is being abused again The threat actors are building out a botnet named Ballista They are operating ...

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 ...

China's state-backed groups are now using covert networks of compromised devices to execute attacks in a low-cost, low-risk, ...

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 ...

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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Once inside as an admin, attackers exploit a command injection flaw to trick the AI-powered security feature into executing commands for persistence. A newly uncovered botnet is targeting Asus routers ...

Asus Routers Get Hacked: How to Check If Yours Got Breached and How to Fix it A 'well-resourced and highly capable adversary' gains unauthorized access to 9,000 routers, likely trying to infect them ...