A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Since August 2025, KadNap has grown to ...

More than 14,000 devices have been integrated into a botnet.

A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered ...

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the ...

Criminals have secretly hijacked more than 14,000 devices worldwide in order to carry out attacks that are almost impossible to protect against, security researchers have warned. The majority of ...

International law enforcement agencies have struck a blow against the "SocksEscort" proxy botnet, comprising over 369.000 compromised devices. The European police authority further explains that ...