TheMoon botnet, dubbed TheMoon, developed and adapted by targeting broadband routers from vendors such as Linksys, Asus, MikroTik, D-Link. The operator apparently aimed to hijack vulnerable devices and rent them and their power to bidders. CenturyLink managed to block TheMoon infrastructure on their network, decreasing the threat. TheMoon is expected to regroup and resume business after adding new exploits for existing vulnerabilities.Hide and Seek botnet has no command and control center and requests propagate from an infected device to another, making it more difficult to stop.”]
Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/new-tricks-make-botnets-volatile-nature-keep-safe/