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Russia, UK
Russian hackers hijack internet traffic using vulnerable routers

The Russian state cyber group APT28 has been compromising routers to hijack web traffic and spy on victims, the UK’s The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. …

USA
Uncle Sam closes the door on all new foreign-made routers

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed a ban on all new routers manufactured overseas being imported into and sold within the United States.

networking
CISA orders US federal agencies to replace unsupported edge devices

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new binding operational directive aimed at reducing a long-standing cyber risk across federal networks: …

Moxa
Hard-coded credentials found in Moxa industrial security appliances, routers (CVE-2025-6950)

Moxa has fixed 5 vulnerabilities in its industrial network security appliances and routers, including a remotely exploitable flaw (CVE-2025-6950) that may result in complete …

Shortleash Backdoor
Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux

SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has uncovered a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices they’re calling LapDogs. The threat is part of a broader …

FBI
Law enforcement takes down proxy botnets used by criminals

US and Dutch law enforcement, with the help of Lumen Technologies researchers, have disrupted 5socks and Anyproxy, two proxy-for-rent services that were used by criminals for …

wireless router
Swap EOL Zyxel routers, upgrade Netgear ones!

There will be no patches for EOL Zyxel routers under attack via CVE-2024-40891, the company has confirmed. Meanwhile, Netgear has issued patches for critical flaws affecting …

Juniper Networks
Juniper enterprise routers backdoored via “magic packet” malware

A stealthy attack campaign turned Juniper enterprise-grade routers into entry points to corporate networks via the “J-magic” backdoor, which is loaded into the …

Sara
Sara: Open-source RouterOS security inspector

Sara is an open-source tool designed to analyze RouterOS configurations and identify security vulnerabilities on MikroTik hardware. Sara’s main feature is using regular …

OpenWrt
Update your OpenWrt router! Security issue made supply chain attack possible

A security issue that could have allowed attackers to serve malicious firmware images to users has been fixed by OpenWrt Project, the organization that helms the development …

Fyodor Yarochkin
The role of compromised cyber-physical devices in modern cyberattacks

Cyber-physical devices are increasingly getting compromised and leveraged by criminal groups and state-sponsored threat actors. Fyodor Yarochkin, Senior Threat Solution …

FBI
FBI forced Flax Typhoon to abandon its botnet

A botnet operated by the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as Flax Typhoon has been disrupted by the law enforcement agency and abandoned by the group, FBI Director …

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