Botnet

Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime

Updated 8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material

Research18 Jan 2024 | 7

Qakbot's backbot: FBI-led takedown keeps crims at bay for just 3 months

Experts say malware strain make take years to die off completely

Cyber-crime19 Dec 2023 | 2

NKabuse backdoor harnesses blockchain brawn to hit several architectures

Novel malware adapts delivers DDoS attacks and provides RAT functionality

Research15 Dec 2023 | 3

Mirai malware infects routers and cameras for new botnet

Akamai sounds the alarm – won't name the manufacturers yet

Cyber-crime23 Nov 2023 | 1

Russian national pleads guilty to building now-dismantled IPStorm proxy botnet

23K nodes earned operator more than $500K – and now perhaps jail time

Cyber-crime14 Nov 2023 | 1

Mozi botnet murder mystery: China or criminal operators behind the kill switch?

Middle Kingdom or self-immolation - there are a couple of theories

Security01 Nov 2023 | 3

Mirai reloads exploit arsenal as botnet embarks on another expansion drive

With 13 new payloads it's the biggest update to the botnet in months

Research10 Oct 2023 |

Qbot malware adapts to live another day … and another …

Operators stay ahead of defenders with new access methods and C2 infrastructure

Research05 Jun 2023 | 3

HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins

We devoting full time to floating under /etc

Security04 Feb 2023 | 8

Zerobot malware now shooting for Apache systems

Upgraded threat, time to patch

Security22 Dec 2022 | 11

KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command

Cashdollar: 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security'

Cyber-crime06 Dec 2022 | 31

Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders

Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a 'willful campaign... to mislead the court'

Cyber-crime17 Nov 2022 | 7

Notorious Emotet botnet returns after a few months off

And it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day

Cyber-crime17 Nov 2022 | 3

Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene

Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service

Research10 Oct 2022 | 1

US reveals 'Target' pic of Conti man with $10m reward offer

Fashion Police chipping in on the bounty related to costliest strain of ransomware on record

Security12 Aug 2022 | 6

How cybercrims embrace messaging apps to spread malware, communicate

Underground forums are so last year. Telegram, Discord offer better privacy, functionality to criminals, says Intel 471

Security02 Aug 2022 | 4

DataDome looks to CAPTCHA the moment with test of humanity that doesn't hurt

As the verification technology weathers ongoing criticism from users, one anti-bot security vendor rolls out its own tool

Security21 Jul 2022 | 15

Botnet malware disguises itself as password cracker for industrial controllers

Can't get into that machine? No problem, just trust this completely sketchy looking tool

Research18 Jul 2022 | 8

International operation takes down Russian RSOCKS botnet

$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims

Cyber-crime17 Jun 2022 | 4

EnemyBot malware adds enterprise flaws to exploit arsenal

Fast-evolving botnet targets critical VMware, F5 BIG-IP bugs, we're told

Research01 Jun 2022 | 2

Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack

Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts

Security25 May 2022 | 29

Microsoft sounds the alarm on – wait for it – a Linux botnet

Redmond claims the numbers are scary, but won't release them

Security23 May 2022 | 40

Emotet reestablishes itself at the top of the malware world

Botnet infrastructure shut down last year, now central to a fast-spreading email scam, researchers say

Security21 Apr 2022 | 5

Microsoft-led move takes down ZLoader botnet domains

That should keep the criminals offline for, well, weeks probably

Security14 Apr 2022 | 6

Enemybot botnet uses Gafgyt source code with a sprinkling of Mirai

Keksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says

Security13 Apr 2022 | 1

Attackers exploit Spring4Shell flaw to let loose the Mirai botnet

Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised

Security11 Apr 2022 | 3

Feds take down Kremlin-backed Cyclops Blink botnet

Control systems scrubbed, hijacked network devices need to be patched and cleaned

Security06 Apr 2022 | 3

Cyclops Blink malware sets up shop in ASUS routers

Kremlin-backed Sandworm has its VPNFilter replacement, it seems

Security18 Mar 2022 | 15

Linux botnet exploits Log4j flaw to hijack Arm, x86 systems

On a plus side, their code's not very good

Security16 Mar 2022 | 4

Google launches lawsuit against a blockchain-enabled botnet

Two Russian men and 15 Does named in Glupteba Enterprise case

Legal08 Dec 2021 | 7

Lock up your Office macros: Emotet botnet back from the dead with Trickbot links

Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it's returned

Security16 Nov 2021 | 4

Mirai-style IoT botnet is now scanning for router-pwning critical vuln in Realtek kit

Researchers warn of Dark.IoT's rapidly evolving nasty

Security25 Aug 2021 | 2

Emotet malware self-destructs after cops deliver time-bomb DLL to infected Windows PCs

Uninstall code, distributed from backend servers seized in January, fired on Sunday

Security26 Apr 2021 | 32

One alleged Dridex money-launderer set for US extradition, beams UK's National Crime Agency

They nicked six alleged perps last year but only one was charged

Security15 Oct 2020 | 3

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

DEF CON In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants

Security10 Aug 2020 | 29

Networking boffins detect wide abuse of IPv4 addresses bought on secondary market

Suggests poorly-regulated address-marts are favorites of folks who want ‘clean’ addresses that give botnets a break

Networks21 Jul 2020 | 24

CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it, so will you

In Brief Plus: DDoS'er jailed, and more

Security29 Jun 2020 | 3

Honeypot behind sold-off IP subnet shows Cyberbunker biz hosted all kinds of filth, says SANS Institute

Botnet C2, denial-of-service, phishing – and that's after filtering

Security25 Jun 2020 | 7

There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught

Bank on the receiving end of massive 418Gbps traffic barrage

Security25 Jun 2020 | 50

Kinda goes without saying, but shore up your admin passwords or be borged by this brute-forcing botnet

Publishing platforms, hosts being targeted by Stealthworker malware

OSes05 Jun 2020 | 19

Sophos XG firewalls hacked, hotfix ready. Texts wreck Apple iThings. Yup, business as usual in infosec world

Roundup Plus Office 2016, 2019 patches – and a barn-load of other security bits and bytes

Security26 Apr 2020 | 9

You're a botnet, you've got a zero-day, so where do you go? After fiber, because that's where the bandwidth is

Two-step attack seen on core systems

Security16 Apr 2020 | 6

Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet

Cops also Cruyff cloggy couple

Security03 Oct 2019 | 23

Newb admits he ran Satori botnet that turned thousands of hacked devices into a 100Gbps+ DDoS-for-hire cannon

One moron down, two to go

Security05 Sep 2019 | 26

Your server remote login isn't root:password, right? Cool. You can keep your data. Oh sh... your IoT gear, though?

Not-quite-Iranian kit-bricking malware emerges as Tehran blamed for rise in cyber-attacks

Security27 Jun 2019 | 23

Mirai botnet malware offspring graduates from uni, puts on a suit, slips into your enterprise

Isn't that what we all want for our kids, after all?

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2019 | 1

Huawei's half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it

Exclusive ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up

Security28 Mar 2019 | 26

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%'

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4

Security19 Mar 2019 | 10

Sign of the times: Mirai botnet strain fine-tunes itself to infect digital signage, projectors

Notorious code puts on suit and tie, goes after business kit

Edge + IoT19 Mar 2019 | 13

FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank...

Roundup Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets

Security09 Mar 2019 | 53

Team America tries to crash Little Rocket Man's Joanap botnet from within, warns owners of infected boxes

Analysis So lonely, so lonely without my hacked PCs

Security31 Jan 2019 | 14

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband

Security14 Jan 2019 | 46

3ve Offline: Countless Windows PCs using 1.7m IP addresses hacked to 'view' up to 12 billion adverts a day

Eight people charged after dodgy ads on PornHub used to infect victims

Security28 Nov 2018 | 34

Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai

Hadoop YARN is the attack vector, so lock it away

OSes22 Nov 2018 | 14

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports

Security08 Nov 2018 | 22

World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing

Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers

Security09 Oct 2018 | 45