Kademlia Router Botnets Evade Takedowns

Researchers uncovered 'KadNap', a botnet (~14,000 devices) that weaponizes a Kademlia (distributed hash table) peer‑to‑peer design built into home routers to hide command servers and resist traditional takedown methods. Infections concentrate on specific vendor models (mostly Asus) and persist across reboots unless devices are factory‑reset and patched. — This shows that IoT/router firmware vulnerabilities plus P2P C2 designs create durable, anonymizing proxy networks that complicate law‑enforcement takedowns and raise stakes for device regulation, patch policies, and ISP mitigation.