Researchers say the botnet has emerged over the past three months and shares aspects with Mirai and Qbot. It has compromised hundreds of ASUS, D-Link and Dasan Zhone routers, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) devices like video recorders and thermal cameras. The discovery of dark_nexus comes as botnets continue to pose a formidable threat, compromising vulnerable internet-connected devices in order to peddle spam, distribute malware or flood systems with distributed denial of service attacks.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dark_nexus-botnet-asus-dlink-routers/154571/