Asus routers
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Canada spy agency used court warrant to disrupt foreign botnets on home routers and IoT gear
Canada’s spy service used a 2024 court warrant to disrupt two foreign-run botnets on routers and IoT devices, in the first use of its threat-reduction powers this way, according to a public Federal Court ruling.
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Russian military hackers target thousands of consumer routers, researchers say
Russian military-linked hackers used tens of thousands of consumer routers in 120 countries to reroute traffic to credential-harvesting sites, researchers said. The campaign targeted older MikroTik and TP-Link devices and used DNS changes to intercept connections.
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KadNap botnet infects over 14,000 routers using peer-to-peer DHT to hide command infrastructure
KadNap, a router malware first seen in August 2025, has infected over 14,000 devices and uses a Kademlia DHT peer-to-peer network to hide command infrastructure and provide anonymized proxy services.
