Tengu botnet, a newly disclosed Mirai variant, weaponizes the hardware watchdog timer in routers and IP cameras to force a ...

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 ...

Dysphoria botnet, a new IoT threat that emerged six days after a major March 2026 law enforcement takedown, uses Ethereum and ...

A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered ...

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 ...

A newly discovered botnet is able to infect up to 100,000 home routers at a time, in order to blast out spam by connecting to webmail servers that host Outlook, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, ...

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 ...

Now your routers can become zombies, too: Researchers have discovered a botnet that uses home DSL devices to build out its army. The so-called "psyb0t" malware may be the first such code to go after ...

When thinking about computer security, you probably consider your PC and phone first and foremost. But there’s a lot of hardware between you and the nebulous malefactors of the internet, and it’s ...

The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can be overlooked when it comes to employees’ cybersecurity. Update: Multiple U.S. and international government ...

Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied ...

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 ...