Security News > 2018 > May > FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers
2018-05-24 10:18
Shortly after Cisco's released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack. Yesterday we reported about a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware that infected over 500,000 devices in 54 countries and
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