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Three of the best: Security

Part of the ' Three of the best ' series, highlighting the most popular posts from the past 12 months.

Internet security risks are constant and expensive. Below are the top three posts related to security for 2025.

  1. Botnets never die - Wang Hao analyses the capabilities of the large-scale botnet AIRASHI, and its evolution into new variants, kitty and AIRASHI.
  2. Understanding stealthy BGP hijacking risk in the ROV era - Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking has long been one of the protocol's most persistent security threats. Yihao Chen provides some operational insights and recommendations for network operators to reduce the subtle but real risk of stealthy BGP hijacking.
  3. BGPsec - could you run it if you wanted to? - Lisa Bruder evaluates the current state of BGPsec implementations with hands-on experiments using open source router software.

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