Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by ...
KadNap is being used to create Doppelgänger, a network with 14,000+ devices targeting Asus routers.
Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked to form a major botnet, exploiting vulnerabilities including CVE-2023-39780. Attackers installed persistent backdoors, making detection difficult. Users are ...
More than 14,000 devices have been integrated into a botnet.
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TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.
A newly identified botnet called KadNap has compromised thousands of Asus routers worldwide by exploiting weaknesses in the devices’ remote-access features, turning ordinary home networking equipment ...
Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed "AyySSHush" that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys. The campaign was discovered by GreyNoise ...
Thousands of Asus home and small office routers around the world have been quietly taken over by hackers, as reported to Ars Technica. These hackers are using a hidden method to break into routers, ...
AyySSHush campaign targeting thousands of routers confirmed. Thousands of routers worldwide have been targeted by a sophisticated campaign that leverages a two-year-old vulnerability, authentication ...
Modern routers are considered secure access points to the internet, but are also repeatedly exploited for attacks. Hackers can take over routers, for example, to create a bot network unnoticed and use ...
Routers appear to be as insecure as ever, after hackers successfully compromised five popular wireless models during a contest at the DefCon 22 security conference, reporting 15 new vulnerabilities to ...