High · published January 2025 · last verified 17 August 2026
Ficora and Capsaicin botnets
Legacy models actively targeted through old vulnerabilities and recruited into botnets.
Scope caveat: Replacement is preferred for listed end-of-life hardware; a factory reset does not restore support.
- Affected products
- Legacy D-Link routers
- Hardware revisions
- Listed legacy models
- Firmware range
- Unsupported firmware
- Threat
- Ficora and Capsaicin botnets
- CVE references
- Historic D-Link CVEs
- Impact
- Legacy models actively targeted through old vulnerabilities and recruited into botnets.
- Conditions required
- End-of-life hardware that no longer receives fixes.
- Vendor response
- D-Link advised retirement rather than patching for listed models.
- Consumer action
- Replace affected end-of-life models rather than relying on a reboot.
- Status
- End of life
- Source type
- Government