Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter overall, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in ...

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 ...

Cloudflare mitigated a major attack on a telco which broke all previous records.

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in December 2025, peaking at ...

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 ...

TL;DR: GreyNoise uncovered the AyySSHush botnet infecting over 8,000 hosts, mainly ASUS routers, exploiting known bypass bugs to gain persistent SSH backdoor access that survives firmware updates.

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...