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More than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol are being abused by cybercriminals as part of a large, multi-purpose proxy botnet, Akamai has...

A cyberespionage group believed to be operating out of Russia hijacked a Cisco router and abused it to obtain credentials that were later leveraged in attacks targeting energy companies in the...

No Link to Known APT Group Cited, But Attackers Appear to Like TolkienKaspersky Lab says it has uncovered an elegantly written piece of malware that leverages a Latvian-designed router to launch...

Researchers have uncovered a new cyber-espionage threat that uses MikroTik routers as a springboard to launch attacks within a network.

Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without being noticed due to their complex and clever hacking...


Security firm Trustwave has disclosed the details of several vulnerabilities affecting Netgear routers, including devices that are top-selling products on Amazon and Best Buy. read more

Several security researchers and companies have recently disclosed the details of potentially serious vulnerabilities they discovered in the past months in various Asus routers. read more

ASUS patched a bug that allowed attackers to pair two vulnerabilities to gain direct router access and execute commands as root.

A new Internet of Things-targeting piece of malware based on Mirai’s publicly released source code has been observed at large, ensnaring devices into a botnet. read more