Published on: 2025-06-04 22:28:13
Update: The FBI’s original directive mistakenly included two models, the E100 and E300. The agency has since revised the list to exclude them, and we’ve updated this post accordingly. If you were spooked by yesterday’s news that thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet, and are thinking about buying a new router, here are some models to not add to your cart per a recent FBI advisory. According to a recent report by the agency, hackers are exploiting at least 13 olde
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If you were spooked by yesterday’s news that thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet, and are thinking about buying a new router, here are some models to not add to your cart per a recent FBI advisory. According to a recent report by the agency, hackers are exploiting at least 13 older routers, mostly sold by Linksys under the Cisco brand, to power botnets and hide malicious activity. These are “end-of-life” models, meaning they no longer receive software updates a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:40:00
The big picture: Backdoors are typically designed to bypass traditional authentication methods and provide unauthorized remote access to vulnerable network appliances or endpoint devices. The most effective backdoors remain invisible to both end users and system administrators, making them especially attractive to threat actors engaged in covert cyber-espionage campaigns. Analysts at GreyNoise have uncovered a mysterious backdoor-based campaign affecting more than 9,000 Asus routers. The unknow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 09:19:04
Thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet that has also been targeting Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys devices. The way in which routers are infected means that they remain under the control of attackers even if the firmware is updated … ASUS wireless routers compromised Security researchers at Greynoise first detected the exploit back in March, but held off on making it public until the industry had time to coordinate a response. GreyNoise has identified an ongoing expl
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Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed "AyySSHush" that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys. The campaign was discovered by GreyNoise security researchers in mid-March 2025, who reports that it carries the hallmarks of a nation-state threat actor, though no concrete attributions were made. The threat monitoring firm reports that the attacks combine brute-forcing login credentials, bypassing authentication, and exploiting older vuln
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 22:30:00
Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E devices certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance must support WPA3, but it's not exclusive to the new standard. You can find Wi-Fi 5 routers with WPA3 support, and some manufacturers are rolling it out onto older devices via firmware updates. It is also backward compatible. Most routers will offer a hybrid mode labeled WPA2/WPA3 to avoid issues as devices transition to the new standard. No security standard is perfect, so you should make sure your router has automatic updates turned
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust What just happened? TP-Link, the most popular router brand in the US, could be banned in the country. The ongoing saga over the firm's alleged links to China and anti-competitive behavior has led Republican lawmakers to urge the Commerce Department to ban sales of the company's products. The seventeen senators and representatives wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week to supp
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NurPhoto/Getty Images Are you still using a router that's past its prime? If so, you could be opening yourself up to a malicious attack. The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are targeting routers that have reached their end of life and are no longer supported by the manufacturer. In an advisory and a PSA published last week, the agency said that attackers are deploying malware against many older routers. Typically dated from 2010 or earlier, these routers have already reached end-of-life, wh
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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 profiting from these two illegal services. During this joi
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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 residential proxy botnets that route malicious traffic. In many cases, these proxies are used
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 20:05:00
It's not every day that Wi-Fi routers make headlines, but TP-Link has had more than its fair share over the past six months. Three different US departments are investigating it for ties to Chinese cyberattacks and potential predatory pricing. That's a lot of bad press, but it hasn't been enough for me to buy a new Wi-Fi router yet. I've been covering the internet world for more than six years, and for the past two, I've used a TP-Link router. I can honestly say I've never had an issue with it -
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Charlie Osborne/ZDNET Nearly every part of modern life depends on our connection to the internet. When my provider experiences an outage, everything grinds to a halt -- working remotely via VPN, streaming music on Spotify, and even using smart home devices. It's a stark reminder of how much we rely on the invisible network that keeps us connected. Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web. Also: Is your Roku TV spying on you? Probably, but here's how to put
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In a nutshell: TP-Link Systems, one of the most popular router brands in the United States, has become the subject of a criminal antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice. According to reports, the China-linked company's pricing strategies and potential national security risks will be examined by the DoJ and the Commerce Department. The affordability of TP-Link's routers is part of what makes them so popular. Prosecutors at the DoJ are examining whether the company engaged in predato
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-02 17:14:00
In a nutshell: TP-Link Systems, one of the most popular router brands in the United States, has become the subject of a criminal antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice. According to reports, the China-linked company's pricing strategies and potential national security risks will be examined by the DoJ and the Commerce Department. The affordability of TP-Link's routers is part of what makes them so popular. Prosecutors at the DoJ are examining whether the company engaged in predato
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 23:13:00
If you search for "gaming routers" on Amazon, you'll see plenty of flashy lights and futuristic designs. Don't fall for it. The main metric you should pay attention to is latency. Latency, or lag, refers to the time it takes for data to travel from your device to another. When you make a move in your online game, how long does it take to show up on the screen? Anything under 100 milliseconds is considered good enough for online gaming. Our top pick, the Asus RT-AX86U, never went above 25ms in o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 16:21:00
It's not every day a humble Wi-Fi router makes an appearance in the halls of Congress. But that's exactly what happened on March 5 when Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Illinois, held up a TP-Link router and said, “Don’t use this.” Krishnamoorthi has been urging a ban of the routers for months in response to several China-backed cyberattacks last year. Investigators at the Commerce, Defense and Justice departments all opened probes into TP-Link routers in 2024 due to ties to Chinese cy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 03:40:07
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 the devices' integrity. "At least one i
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Rodica Cojocaru/Getty Images Nearly every part of modern life depends on our connection to the internet. When my provider experiences an outage, everything grinds to a halt -- working remotely via VPN, streaming music on Spotify, and even using smart home devices. It's a stark reminder of how much we rely on the invisible network that keeps us connected. Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web. Also: How to clear the cache on your Windows 11 PC (and why it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-24 08:49:00
It's not every day a humble Wi-Fi router makes an appearance in the halls of Congress. But that's exactly what happened today when Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois) held up a TP-Link router and said, “Don’t use this.” Krishnamoorthi has been urging a ban of the routers for months in response to several China-backed cyberattacks last year. Investigators at the Commerce, Defense and Justice departments all opened probes into TP-Link routers in 2024 due to ties to Chinese cyberattack
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