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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
16 Nov 2021 19:57 | 4
Security
Mirai-style IoT botnet is now scanning for router-pwning critical vuln in Realtek kit
Researchers warn of Dark.IoT's rapidly evolving nasty
25 Aug 2021 17:11 | 2
Security
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
26 Apr 2021 05:33 | 32
Security
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
15 Oct 2020 19:28 | 3
DEF CON
Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear
In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants
10 Aug 2020 21:28 | 29
Networks
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
21 Jul 2020 07:29 | 24
In Brief
CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it, so will you
Plus: DDoS'er jailed, and more
29 Jun 2020 05:04 | 3
Security
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
25 Jun 2020 15:52 | 7
Security
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
25 Jun 2020 10:03 | 50
OSes
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
05 Jun 2020 17:35 | 19
Roundup
Sophos XG firewalls hacked, hotfix ready. Texts wreck Apple iThings. Yup, business as usual in infosec world
Plus Office 2016, 2019 patches – and a barn-load of other security bits and bytes
26 Apr 2020 12:04 | 9
Security
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
16 Apr 2020 21:44 | 6
Security
Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
Cops also Cruyff cloggy couple
03 Oct 2019 06:00 | 23
Security
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
05 Sep 2019 00:47 | 26
Security
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
27 Jun 2019 06:58 | 23
Edge + IoT
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?
14 Jun 2019 04:45 | 1
Exclusive
Huawei's half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it
ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up
28 Mar 2019 09:15 | 26
Security
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
19 Mar 2019 23:10 | 10
Edge + IoT
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
19 Mar 2019 08:02 | 13
Roundup
FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank...
Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets
09 Mar 2019 08:30 | 53
Analysis
Team America tries to crash Little Rocket Man's Joanap botnet from within, warns owners of infected boxes
So lonely, so lonely without my hacked PCs
31 Jan 2019 02:27 | 14
Security
Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars
Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband
14 Jan 2019 06:56 | 46
Security
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
28 Nov 2018 01:32 | 34
OSes
Malware scum want to build a Linux botnet using Mirai
Hadoop YARN is the attack vector, so lock it away
22 Nov 2018 10:20 | 14
Security
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
08 Nov 2018 07:58 | 23
Security
World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing
Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers
09 Oct 2018 23:51 | 45
Edge + IoT
NUUO, do not want! CCTV webcams can be hacked to spy on you
Owners told to lock down network access to panned surveillance kit
17 Sep 2018 20:45 | 7
Edge + IoT
IoT search engine ZoomEye 'dumbs down' Dahua DVR hijackings by spewing passwords
And noone wants to fix it
16 Jul 2018 22:25 | 7
Security
Dr Symantec offers quick and painless checkup for VPNFilter menace on routers
Traffic-fiddling malware may have met its match
02 Jul 2018 13:39 | 9
BSides Tel Aviv
Hot new application for blockchain: How does botnet control sound?
It could happen, warns researcher
20 Jun 2018 08:17 | 24
Security
Not so private eye: Got an Axis network cam? You'll need to patch it, unless you like hackers
According to magic people, VDOO people
18 Jun 2018 21:05 | 9
Security
Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login
These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting
06 Jun 2018 00:05 | 16
Roundup
NSA code backported, crims cuffed, leaky AWS S3 buckets, and more
But it's not all good news!
10 Feb 2018 04:27 | 19
Security
Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials
With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit
24 Jan 2018 04:29 | 2
Security
New Mirai botnet species 'Okiru' hunts for ARC-based kit
Researchers: Code designed to hit Linux devices
16 Jan 2018 11:56 | 11
Security
OK, OK, MIRA-I DID IT: Botnet-building compsci kid comes clean
Jha rule-breaker and pals confess IoT gadget hack crimes, now facing the slammer
13 Dec 2017 22:13 | 11
Security
International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet
Infections spread across over 200 regions
05 Dec 2017 00:46 | 14
Security
Mirai, Mirai, pwn them all, who's the greatest botnet on the whole?
Variants on zombie horde that took down Dyn still at large
07 Nov 2017 16:32 |
Security
Reaper IoT botnet ain't so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
But numbers aren't everything, are they, Dyn?
27 Oct 2017 11:49 | 5
Security
New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents
23 Oct 2017 00:58 | 73
Edge + IoT
Do fear the Reaper: Huge army of webcams, routers raised from 'one million' hacked orgs
Check your cameras, broadband gateways, NAS boxes for latest botnet malware
20 Oct 2017 19:30 | 48
Security
IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS
I don't know which is worse
22 Sep 2017 15:28 | 14
Updated
Top tip, hacker newbs: Don't use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads
Opsec, not just for Christmas
07 Sep 2017 19:56 | 17
Security
Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet
The Play Store is looking buggier than ever
28 Aug 2017 19:58 | 12
Security
Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months
Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions
03 Aug 2017 23:28 | 9
Security
Don't all rush out at once, but there are a million devices ripe to be the next big botnet
As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse
15 Jun 2017 10:02 | 14
Security
'Jaff' argh snakes: 5m emails/hour ransomware floods inboxes
Locky-style nasty will squeeze you for two whole bitcoins
12 May 2017 13:22 | 15
Security
Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras
Children, please welcome Persirai to the class
10 May 2017 17:08 | 19
Security
Mysterious Hajime botnet has pwned 300,000 IoT devices
The Dark Knight of malware's purpose remains unknown
27 Apr 2017 16:02 | 17
Security
Beware of geeks bearing gifts: Evil game guides infect 2 million Androids
Google Play scanners asleep at the switch while morons tap away their security
26 Apr 2017 21:47 | 8
Security
Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks
WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries
26 Apr 2017 03:01 | 9
Security
Russian hacker arrested in Spain for bot-herding not election-fiddling
Peter Levashov indicted over Kelihos as Russian carder Roman Seleznev cops 27 years
24 Apr 2017 07:31 | 11
Security
'Amnesia' IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability
New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen
07 Apr 2017 15:01 | 13
Security
Strange Mirai botnet brew blamed for powerful application layer attack
Varmints cooked up variant after malware code went public
29 Mar 2017 13:31 | 3
Legal
FBI secures guilty plea from Russian bot-herder
Ebury infections for fun and profit, sentencing in August
29 Mar 2017 05:27 | 4
Security
GiftGhostBot scares up victims' gift-card cash with brute-force attacks
Software nasty can burn through 1.7 million account numbers per hour
24 Mar 2017 19:08 | 6
Security
Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind
♪ Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ♪
22 Mar 2017 07:02 | 9
Security
World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam
IT LIVES!
21 Mar 2017 17:29 | 13
Edge + IoT
University DDoS'd by its own seafood-curious malware-infected vending machines
2017's security headlines are starting to read like MadLibs
13 Feb 2017 22:33 | 49
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