Tagged: Black Lotus Labs

March 12, 2026

Shadow of the Router: How the “KadNap” Botnet Hijacked 14,000 ASUS Devices

The Black Lotus Labs vanguard at Lumen Technologies has unearthed a nascent botnet christened KadNap, operational since August 2025. KadNap ruthlessly infects ASUS routers and auxiliary edge networking hardware, transmuting these devices into proxy...

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January 16, 2026

Zombies in the Living Room: 2 Million Android TV Boxes Hijacked for Proxy Fraud

Since the autumn of the previous year, the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies has successfully decommissioned over 550 command-and-control servers tethered to the AISURU and Kimwolf botnets. These malevolent networks persist as...