Hackers working for the Chinese government are increasingly hiding their attacks behind ready-made networks of hacked routers ...

Almost every China-aligned threat actor is involved.

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 majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and ...

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.

A Mirai botnet has started exploiting CVE-2025-29635, a year-old command injection vulnerability in discontinued D-Link ...

International cyber agencies are sounding the alarm that China-nexus hackers have quietly pivoted to a new playbook, turning ...

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 ...

CVE-2024-3721 and CVE-2023-33538 exploited in TBK DVRs and EoL TP-Link routers, enabling Mirai variants and DDoS risk.

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 ...

Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm ...