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    FBI takes down botnet exploiting aging routers

    The FBI and Dutch police have taken down two botnets and indicted four people believed to have been behind it. The botnet involved thousands of older wireless internet routers worldwide, installing malware that allowed them to be reconfigured and then making them available for sale as proxy servers on the Anyproxy.net and 5socks.net websites. Both website domains were managed by…

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    Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies

    Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two networks of residential proxies known as Anyproxy and 5socks. The U.S. Justice Department also indicted three Russian nationals (Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, Kirill Vladimirovich Morozov, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shishkin) and a Kazakhstani (Dmitriy Rubtsov) for their involvement in operating, maintaining, and…

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    End-of-life routers hacked for cybercrime proxy networks

    The FBI warns that threat actors are deploying malware on end-of-life (EoL) routers to convert them into proxies sold on the 5Socks and Anyproxy networks. These devices, which were released many years back and no longer receive security updates from their vendors, are vulnerable to external attacks leveraging publicly available exploits to inject persistent malware.  Once compromised, they are added to…

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    Edge devices are now your weakest link: VPNs, firewalls, and routers were the leading source of initial compromise in 30% of incidents last year – here’s why

    Compromised network edge devices have rapidly emerged as one of the biggest attack points for small and medium businesses, prompting calls for firms to shore up defenses. Statistics from Sophos’ Annual Threat Report show firewalls, routers, and VPNs accounted for initial compromise in nearly 30% of all incidents observed by the firm over the last year. Virtual private networks (VPNs)…

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    Best Low-Cost WiFi Routers – Consumer Reports

    You don’t need WiFi 7, introduced in 2024, to check email, conduct Zoom calls, and browse the web. In fact, if your laptop, phone, and other gadgets aren’t WiFi 7-compatible, you won’t notice much difference with the new standard, not yet anyway. So go ahead and save yourself some money with a WiFi 6 or WiFi 6E router. You can still…

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    ASUS warns of critical auth bypass flaw in routers using AiCloud

    ASUS is warning about an authentication bypass vulnerability in routers with AiCloud enabled that could allow remote attackers to perform unauthorized execution of functions on the device. The vulnerability, tracked under CVE-2025-2492 and rated critical (CVSS v4 score: 9.2), is remotely exploitable via a specially crafted request and requires no authentication, making it particularly dangerous. “An improper authentication control vulnerability…

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    DrayTek routers worldwide go into reboot loops over weekend

    Many Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide are alerting customers of an outage that started Saturday night and triggered DrayTek router connectivity problems. Those affected by this incident reported seeing routers across multiple series models intermittently losing connectivity and entering boot loops. Impacted ISPs (including Gamma, Zen Internet, ICUK, and A&A in the United Kingdom and elsewhere) confirmed these reports and…

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    Juniper patches bug that let Chinese cyberspies backdoor routers

    ​Juniper Networks has released emergency security updates to patch a Junos OS vulnerability exploited by Chinese hackers to backdoor routers for stealthy access. This medium severity flaw (CVE-2025-21590) was reported by Amazon security engineer Matteo Memelli and is caused by an improper isolation or compartmentalization weakness. Successful exploitation lets local attackers with high privileges execute arbitrary code on vulnerable routers to compromise…

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    Cisco IOS XR vulnerability lets attackers crash BGP on routers

    Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the company’s carrier-grade, Network Convergence System (NCS), and Carrier Routing System (CRS) series of routers, such as the ASR 9000, NCS 5500, and 8000 series. This high-severity flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-20115) was found…

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    Best ASUS routers for streaming, gaming, and more

    Are you looking for deals on ASUS routers? Are you searching for the best ASUS router for streaming or gaming, or are you interested in upgrading to an ASUS Wi-Fi 7 router? I’ve partnered with ASUS to find the best router options for different needs and budgets. My recommendations cover Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 routers, including popular ASUS ZenWiFi…

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