Researchers at DroneBL have spotted signs of a stealthy router-based botnet worm targeting routers and DSL modems. The worm, called "psyb0t," has been circulating since at least January this year, ...

You might want to upgrade the firmware of your router if it happens to sport the Netgear brand. Researchers have discovered a severe security hole that potentially ...

A variant of the Mirai botnet, called Ttint, has added espionage capabilities to complement its denial-of-service functions. Two former Tenda router zero-days are anchoring the spread of a Mirai-based ...

A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet tracked as Beastmode (aka B3astmode) has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of ...

A sophisticated proxy code has infected hundreds of thousands of devices already. A fresh botnet is spreading across the landscape, targeting router equipment. So far, hundreds of thousands of bot ...

A stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon has been infecting over 70,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers, creating a botnet primarily aimed at stealing bandwidth and operating as a hidden ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered a campaign exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in D-Link routers to spread botnet malware. A botnet is a network of ...

A fast-moving botnet that turns routers, cameras, and other types of Internet-connected devices into potent tools for theft and destruction has resurfaced again, this time by exploiting a critical ...

A recently discovered botnet has taken control of an eye-popping 100,000 home and small-office routers made from a range of manufacturers, mainly by exploiting a critical vulnerability that has ...

A malware author has built a huge botnet comprised of over 18,000 routers in the span of only one day. The botnet has been built by exploiting a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers, tracked as ...

In the news has been yet another router botnet. [Hui Wang] and [RootKiter] of 360Netlab announced their discovery of what they call the “BCMUPnP_Hunter” rootkit. They estimate this botnet to be ...