Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Cloudflare has sent us a copy of its quarterly DDoS threat report, and it makes for hair-raising reading. The gigantic CDN provider claims that it recorded "an unprecedented bombardment" from a botnet ...

Kimwolf, an Android botnet with 1.8 million infected devices, is rapidly evolving using ENS for resilience Its code and infrastructure overlap with AISURU, indicating both belong to the same threat ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay ...

A series of known and powerful botnets are ramping up attacks against Web-exposed assets such as PHP servers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and cloud gateways to gain control over network ...

China-linked JDY botnet grew from 650 to 1,500+ hacked SOHO devices. It scans for new vulnerabilities within hours and feeds targeting data to state hackers. A covert botnet linked to Chinese ...