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Researchers Discover 14,000 Routers Wrangled Into Never-Before-Seen Botnet


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices -- primarily made by Asus -- that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously carries traffic used for cybercrime. The ma...

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