14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns

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 ...

New KadNap botnet hijacks ASUS routers to fuel cybercrime proxy network

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into ...
Security Boulevard

How Threat Actors Turned OpenClaw Into a Scraping Botnet

How did OpenClaw become botnet infrastructure so quickly? DataDome analyzes the hijacked AI agents scraping sites at scale ...
TechRepublic

Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware

Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware Your email has been sent The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can ...
TechRadar

Powerful botnet found to be launching some of the biggest DDoS attacks ever

Some of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever detected have been revealed by cybersecurity company StormWall. This specific botnet, which enabled DDoS attacks of up to 2TB/s, sets a new record over the ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Aeternum Botnet Shifts Command Control to Polygon Blockchain

A newly identified botnet loader is shifting command-and-control (C2) operations onto the Polygon blockchain, eliminating the central servers that authorities and security firms have historically ...