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Hundreds of outdated Fortinet, Cisco, and Netgear small office home office routers, some of which were in high-value networks, have been leveraged by Chinese advanced persistent threat operation Volt Typhoon to form the sophisticated KV-botnet and establish a covert data transfer network, reports SecurityWeek.
Two novel malware binaries, including "HiatusRAT," offer unique capabilities that point to the need for better security for companies' router infrastructure.
A quickly expanding botnet called Chaos is targeting and infecting Windows and Linux devices to use them for cryptomining and launching DDoS attacks.
The malware has been in circulation since 2020, with sophisticated, advanced malicious actors taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in SOHO routers as the work-from-home population expands rapidly.