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#3 Ars Technica Security general March 11, 2026 at 21:27 UTC

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

By Dan Goodin

AI Summary

A malware campaign has infected approximately 14,000 routers, primarily Asus devices located in the United States, with highly resilient malware that's difficult to remove. The KadNap malware enlists compromised edge devices into a stealth proxy botnet for routing malicious traffic.

Relevance score: 90.0/100

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