The FBI told Americans in May 2025 to replace home routers that have reached end-of-life status, warning that threat actors ...

The FBI told Americans that cybercriminals are actively infecting aging home routers, some dating back to 2010 or earlier, ...

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 ...

A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into ...

D-Link router botnet AryStinger has compromised over 4,300 end-of-life DIR-850L and DIR-818LW devices, Qianxin XLab reported ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...