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KadNap


According to Black Lotus Labs, KadNap primarily targets Asus routers, conscripting them into a botnet that proxies malicious traffic. It employs a custom version of the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table (DHT) protocol, which is used to conceal the IP address of their infrastructure within a peer-to-peer system to evade traditional network monitoring.

References
2026-03-10LumenBlack Lotus Labs
Silence of the hops: The KadNap botnet
KadNap

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