AryStinger Botnet Infected Thousands of D-Link Routers Worldwide

**AryStinger** is an active botnet campaign that has silently compromised over 4,000 end-of-life D-Link routers worldwide to create a residential proxy network used to route and obscure malicious traffic; the report details the multi-stage exploitation and payload process, affected devices and users, detection/remediation guidance (replace EoL hardware, disable UPnP/remote management, change defaults), and contextualizes the threat among similar router-targeting botnets.