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 ...

Masjesu botnet targets IoT devices globally as a DDoS-for-hire service, deliberately avoiding U.S. military networks to ...

The DDoS-capable Masjesu botnet focuses on evasion and persistence, but targets a broad range of IoT devices to spread.

Masjesu botnet drives global DDoS attacks since 2023, with nearly 50% traffic from Vietnam, threatening enterprises and IoT ...

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 ...

If you own a TP-Link home router and have not updated it recently, U.S. intelligence agencies want you to stop what you are ...

The foreign router ban is filled with contradictions.

Russian hackers hijacked home routers to steal passwords and emails. Here's how to tell if yours was one of them and what ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of an IBM X-Force threat intelligence report ...

Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, has taken over thousands of residential home routers to steal passwords and authentication ...

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 ...