#iot

Analysis · May 20, 2026 · Colten Anderson

The catalog is full of cheap routers and cameras for one reason: they're botnet feedstock

Scroll the KEV catalog and you hit a wall of command-injection bugs in D-Link, TP-Link, DrayTek, ASUS, Netgear, and IP-camera firmware. They're not separate stories. They're the same story: internet-exposed consumer gear that gets conscripted into IoT botnets, and the fix is almost always the same.