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This New Russian Cyclops Blink Botnet Targets ASUS Routers

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Nearly a month after it was discovered that the malware used WatchGuard firewall appliances as a stepping stone to obtaining remote access to infiltrated networks, ASUS routers have been the target of a budding botnet known as Cyclops Blink. 
The botnet’s primary objective is to develop an infrastructure for additional attacks on high-value targets, according to Trend Micro, given that none of the compromised hosts belongs to vital organisations or those that have an obvious value on economic, political, or military espionage. 
Cyclops Blink has been identified by intelligence services in the United Kingdom and the United States as a replacement framework for VPNFilter, a malware that has targeted network equipment, especially small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. 
Sandworm (aka Voodoo Bear), a Russian state-sponsored actor has been linked to both VPNFilter and Cyclops Blink. It has also been tied to several high-profile cyberattacks, including the 2015 and 2016 attacks on the Ukrainian electrical grid, the 2017 NotPetya attack, and the 2018 Olympic Destroyer attack on the Winter Olympic Games. 
The complex modular botnet, c language, affects a variety of ASUS router types, with the company admitting that it is working on a patch to handle any potential exploitation. –