A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations.
Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) devices are under attack! Two critical vulnerabilities are being exploited to deploy the notorious Mirai botnet.
FortiGuard Labs discovered the new botnet “Goldoon” targeting D-Link devices through related vulnerability CVE-2015-2051.
Binary Defense threat researchers analyzed the reemergence of the QakBot botnet. The new QakBot DLL has undergone some minor changes.
A Mirai-based botnet named 'InfectedSlurs' is exploiting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in QNAP VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) devices to hijack and make them part of its DDoS (distributed denial of service) swarm.
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Cado Security Labs has been monitoring on the rapid growth of a cross-platform botnet, named “P2Pinfect”. Here's the latest updates.
Akamai SIRT has uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited to spread a Mirai variant in the wild.
A Russian and Moldovan national pled guilty to three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers.
The FBI today revealed US law enforcement’s dismantlement of a botnet proxy network and its infrastructure associated with the IPStorm malware.
According to online reports, the botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and other electronic devices around the world, including in Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Researchers speculate that Chinese authorities may be responsible for turning off one of the internet’s most prolific IoT botnets.
Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts. These threat actors are targeting millions of business accounts on Facebook’s platform — from highly-rated marketplace sellers to large corporations, with fake business inquiries, achieving a staggering “success rate” with approximately 1 out of 70 infected!
Qakbot, one of the largest and longest-running botnets to date, was taken down following a multinational law enforcement operation spearheaded by the FBI and known as Operation 'Duck Hunt.'
Tomcat Vulnerability explore some of the techniques used by the Mirai botnet to exploit a single attack directed at one of our Apache Tomcat honeypots.
Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers and add them to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth and provide a hidden residential proxy service.
FortiGuard Labs encountered recent samples of a DDoS-as-a-service botnet calling itself Condi. It attempted to spread by exploiting TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers vulnerable to CVE-2023-1389, which was disclosed in mid-March of this year. Read more.
The high-profile botnet, focused on mining cryptocurrency, is back with new Linux versions.
New Golang-based malware we have dubbed GoBruteforcer targets web servers. Golang is becoming popular with malware programmers due to its versatility.
As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless.
Raspberry Robin appears to be a type of Pay-Per-Install botnet, likely to be used by cybercriminals to distribute other malware.
FortiGuard Labs encountered an unreported CMS scanner and brute forcer written in the Go programming language. Read our analysis of the malware and how this active botnet scans and compromises websites.
