Lawmakers say the ROUTERS Act is critical to understanding vulnerabilities in devices exploited by Chinese hackers and other adversaries.

Mandiant said exploits were the most common initial access vector last year, linking software defects to 1 in 3 attacks. The most commonly exploited vulnerabilities affected network…

Exploited vulnerabilities have turned up in Ivanti products 16 times since 2024. That’s more than any other vendor in the network edge device space.

The legislation calls for a Commerce Department examination of routers, modems and other devices controlled by U.S. adversaries.

The Chinese nation-state threat group intruded five additional telecom networks between December and January, including two unnamed providers in the U.S., Recorded Future researchers said.

A separate piece of bipartisan Senate legislation would create a cyber insurance working group.

Researchers at Black Lotus Labs have uncovered an operation where a back door is dropped onto enterprise-grade Juniper Networks routers and listens for specific network signals, known…

The vulnerability, found in versions of Four-Faith routers, appears to have been exploited in the wild and has been connected to attempted infections of Mirai.

ForeScout said one of them warranted rating at the maximum severity level, although DrayTek has issued patches.

The CyclopsBlink malware is now targeting internet routers from hardware maker ASUS, Trend Micro researchers said.