KadNap Malware Turning Asus Routers Into Botnets

Reported 11 Mar 2026 by otx · Severity: medium

A sophisticated new malware called KadNap has been discovered targeting Asus routers and conscripting them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic. The malware employs a custom version of the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table protocol to conceal its command-and-control infrast