Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

RustDuck is a small, evolving DDoS botnet migrating to Rust. It uses advanced encryption, anti-analysis evasion, and exploits known IoT flaws. Since February 2026, researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab have been tracking a new malware family, called RustDuck, that hijacks routers, cameras, Android set-top boxes, and exposed servers, then uses them to flood targets with junk […]

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat'scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet's targeting infrastructure

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that's designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware called KadNap that's primarily targeting Asus routers to enlist them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge

Malware campaigns distributing the RondoDox botnet have expanded their targeting focus to exploit more than 50 vulnerabilities across over 30 vendors

PolarNet Has Hallmarks of an Operational Relay BoxNearly 40,000 enterprise-grade devices and consumer-class routers, IP cameras and more are infected with malware researchers codenamed PolarEdge, controlled by a botnet of the same name, which experts suspect is designed to hide traffic tied to cyberespionage operations.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a malware campaign that's targeting security flaws in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers to rope the devices into a new botnet called RondoDox

Persistent Attack Grants Remote SSH Access via ExploitSomeone - possibly nation-state hackers - appears to be constructing a botnet from thousands of Asus routers in hacking that survives a firmware patch and reboots. Nearly 9,000 routers have been compromised and the number is growing, say researchers.

Unpatched TP-Link Archer routers have become the target of a new botnet campaign dubbed Ballista, according to new findings from the Cato CTRL team

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new large-scale campaign that exploits security flaws in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers to rope the devices into a Mirai botnet variant dubbed Murdoc_Botnet

Ohm, for flux sake China's Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical infrastructure networks and kick off cyberattacks, according to security researchers.…

The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called "Raptor Train" that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in other countries. [...]

VPN Endpoints, Wireless Routers and Network-Attached Storage Devices Are TargetsOperators behind a mysterious botnet named for a TCP routing port number are expanding the universe of targeted devices and taking steps to hide their infrastructure, warn Sekoia researchers. The 7777 - or Quad7 - botnet appears to have emerged in 2023.

A malware botnet named 'Pumpkin Eclipse' performed a mysterious destructive event in 2023 that took 600,000 office/home office (SOHO) internet routers offline, according to a new report by researchers at Lumen's Black Lotus Labs. [...]

A malware botnet named 'Pumpkin Eclipse' performed a mysterious destructive event in 2023 that took 600,000 office/home office (SOHO) internet routers offline, according to a new report by researchers at Lumen's Black Lotus Labs. [...]

FortiGuard Labs Identifies Botnet Exploiting Decade-Old D-Link VulnerabilityHackers are taking advantage of D-Link home routers left unpatched for a decade and turning them into a newly formed botnet researchers dubbed "Goldoon." The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely via the proprietary Home Network Administration Protocol.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an emerging botnet called P2PInfect that's capable of targeting routers and IoT devices

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort, which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.