Botnet

The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort

Cyber-crime07 Mar 2025 | 10

Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

And now you won't stop calling me, I'm kinda busy

CSO29 Jan 2025 | 4

How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi's ashes to become 'most prevalent malware'

Botnet's operators 'driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state'

Cyber-crime24 Dec 2024 | 3

Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume

Infosec in brief Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more

Security11 Nov 2024 |

Six IT contractors accused of swindling Uncle Sam out of millions

Infosec in brief Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more

Security03 Nov 2024 | 11

Internet Archive wobbles back online, with limited functionality

DDoS detectives deduce Mirai used to do the deed, using home entertainment boxes in Korea, China, and Brazil

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2024 | 14

FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds

Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks

Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 21

'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices

Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware

Research24 Jun 2024 | 3

Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains

Operation Endgame just beginning: 'Stay tuned,' says Europol

Malware Month30 May 2024 |

Chinese national cuffed on charges of running 'likely the world's largest botnet ever'

DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs

Cyber-crime29 May 2024 | 12

Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS attacks

Infosec in brief Also: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more

Security06 May 2024 | 18

Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft

Infosec in brief Also, TheMoon botnet back for EoL SOHO routers, Sellafield to be prosecuted for 'infosec failures', plus critical vulns

Security01 Apr 2024 | 3

That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again

Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs

Security28 Feb 2024 | 37

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 | 2

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 | 4

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