Botnet

Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login

These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting

Security06 Jun 2018 | 16

NSA code backported, crims cuffed, leaky AWS S3 buckets, and more

Roundup But it's not all good news!

Security10 Feb 2018 | 19

Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials

With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit

Security24 Jan 2018 | 2

New Mirai botnet species 'Okiru' hunts for ARC-based kit

Researchers: Code designed to hit Linux devices

Security16 Jan 2018 | 11

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

Security13 Dec 2017 | 11

International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet

Infections spread across over 200 regions

Security05 Dec 2017 | 14

Mirai, Mirai, pwn them all, who's the greatest botnet on the whole?

Variants on zombie horde that took down Dyn still at large

Security07 Nov 2017 |

Reaper IoT botnet ain't so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones

But numbers aren't everything, are they, Dyn?

Security27 Oct 2017 | 5

New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait

Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents

Security23 Oct 2017 | 73

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

Edge + IoT20 Oct 2017 | 48

IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS

I don't know which is worse

Security22 Sep 2017 | 14

Top tip, hacker newbs: Don't use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads

Updated Opsec, not just for Christmas

Security07 Sep 2017 | 17

Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet

The Play Store is looking buggier than ever

Security28 Aug 2017 | 12

Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months

Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions

Security03 Aug 2017 | 9

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

Security15 Jun 2017 | 14

'Jaff' argh snakes: 5m emails/hour ransomware floods inboxes

Locky-style nasty will squeeze you for two whole bitcoins

Security12 May 2017 | 15

Another IoT botnet has been found feasting on vulnerable IP cameras

Children, please welcome Persirai to the class

Security10 May 2017 | 19

Mysterious Hajime botnet has pwned 300,000 IoT devices

The Dark Knight of malware's purpose remains unknown

Security27 Apr 2017 | 17

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

Security26 Apr 2017 | 8

Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks

WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries

Security26 Apr 2017 | 9

Russian hacker arrested in Spain for bot-herding not election-fiddling

Peter Levashov indicted over Kelihos as Russian carder Roman Seleznev cops 27 years

Security24 Apr 2017 | 11

'Amnesia' IoT botnet feasts on year-old unpatched vulnerability

New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen

Security07 Apr 2017 | 13

Strange Mirai botnet brew blamed for powerful application layer attack

Varmints cooked up variant after malware code went public

Security29 Mar 2017 | 3

FBI secures guilty plea from Russian bot-herder

Ebury infections for fun and profit, sentencing in August

Legal29 Mar 2017 | 4

GiftGhostBot scares up victims' gift-card cash with brute-force attacks

Software nasty can burn through 1.7 million account numbers per hour

Security24 Mar 2017 | 6

Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind

♪ Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ♪

Security22 Mar 2017 | 9

World's worst botnet fiends switch from ransomware to stock scam spam

IT LIVES!

Security21 Mar 2017 | 13

University DDoS'd by its own seafood-curious malware-infected vending machines

2017's security headlines are starting to read like MadLibs

Edge + IoT13 Feb 2017 | 49

Hacker: I made 160,000 printers spew out ASCII art around the world

Check your firewalls, people – no need to leave all this gear facing the internet

Security06 Feb 2017 | 46

Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

Exclusive Hospitals advised to use Bing instead

Security01 Feb 2017 | 102

Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents

Infosec folk spot web of compromised British devices

Security08 Dec 2016 | 35

Sigh... 'Hundreds of thousands' of... sigh, web CCTV cams still at risk of... sigh, hijacking

Vid It's been two years and no patches, say researchers

Security07 Dec 2016 | 23

CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up

DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations

Security05 Dec 2016 | 12

Sh... IoT just got real: Mirai botnet attacks targeting multiple ISPs

Analysis Now ZyXEL and D-Link routers from Post Office and TalkTalk under siege

Security02 Dec 2016 | 25

Online criminals iced as cops bury malware-spewing Avalanche

Four-year op by US and EU culminates in arrests, server seizures

Security01 Dec 2016 | 15

Origin of the beasties: Mirai botnet missing link revealed as DVR player

CCTV cameras? You've been looking in the wrong place

Security14 Nov 2016 | 7

Russian banks floored by withering DDoS attacks

IoT blamed. Again.

Security11 Nov 2016 | 33

Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system

Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you're attacked

Security09 Nov 2016 | 17

SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged

Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks

Security08 Nov 2016 | 7

Mirai IoT botnet blamed for 'smashing Liberia off the internet'

Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack, it is claimed

Security04 Nov 2016 | 9

Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service

Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash

Security01 Nov 2016 | 5

A successor to Mirai? Newly discovered malware aims to create fresh IoT botnet

Dubbed Linux/IRCTelnet, nasty's source code based on Aidra

Edge + IoT31 Oct 2016 | 11

Boffin's anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army

And break every computer crime law along the way

Security31 Oct 2016 | 35

Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet

Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices

Security28 Oct 2016 | 18

Divide the internet into compartments to save us from the IoT fail whale

Intel's chief IoT security bloke puts forward one possible solution

Edge + IoT27 Oct 2016 | 34

Internet of S**t things claims another scalp: DNS DDoS smashes StarHub

'Don't buy rubbish Webcams', carrier tells customers

Security27 Oct 2016 | 23

It's finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse

SoHopeless

Security19 Oct 2016 | 56

Decade-old SSH vuln exploited by IoT botnet armies to hose servers

Internet of Unpatchable Things

Edge + IoT13 Oct 2016 | 13

Internet of Things botnets: You ain’t seen nothing yet

SSSh*t just got real

Edge + IoT10 Oct 2016 | 57

SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets

Do try this at home – but carefully

Security04 Oct 2016 | 6

Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet

Hackforums leak

Security03 Oct 2016 | 65

No wonder we're being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?

Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices

Security27 Sep 2016 | 41

Security man Krebs' website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet

Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That's the one

Edge + IoT26 Sep 2016 | 33

Lurk trojan takedown also took out Angler exploit kit

Follow the malware

Security11 Jul 2016 |

25,000 malware-riddled CCTV cameras form network-crashing botnet

Watching us and borking you

Edge + IoT28 Jun 2016 | 33

Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks

If your Netflix password is your banking password, you'll get what you deserve

Security24 May 2016 | 19