A firmware validation flaw tied to CVE-2026-13385 shows how a router can become dangerous when it cannot reliably verify who is on the other end of a connection.
A critical ASUS router flaw shows how broken certificate and integrity checks can turn network interception into attacker-controlled commands on an edge device.
Man-in-the-middle attacks are less a single exploit than a class of interception tactics that abuse trust between devices, networks, and infrastructure.