AryStinger botnet hijacks 4,000 outdated D-Link routers (opens in new tab)

Qianxin’s XLab threat intelligence team has identified a previously undocumented malware botnet, AryStinger, that compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers and turned them into proxies for malicious traffic. Researchers said the malware converts infected devices into remotely controlled “executors” that can scan, proxy and tunnel traffic, execute commands and carry out other attacker-directed activity. AryStinger exploits older vulnerabilities, including CVE-2013-3307, CVE-2016-5681 and CV...