Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group. Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit have discovered an advanced piece of IoT botnet...

Lizard Squad's DDoS Site Runs on Hacked Home Routers

The distributed denial of service attacks that crippled both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network PSN shortly after the holidays came at the hands of a botnet largely comprised of hacked home routers. The botnet is managed by Lizard Squad, the group of hackers that took credit for knocking the...