The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen has discovered malware, KadNap, that conscripts edge devices into a botnet that proxies malicious traffic. Since August 2025, the team has been monitoring the growth ...
KadNap is being used to create Doppelgänger, a network with 14,000+ devices targeting Asus routers.
KadNap botnet infects 14,000+ routers using DHT-based P2P control while ClipXDaemon hijacks crypto wallets on Linux X11.
A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into ...