- Security
- By George Dascalu
- July 6th, 2021
New Botnet Dubbed Mirai Compromised Over 300,000 IoT Devices
Cybercriminals used compromised IoT devices in order to launch massive DDoS attacks all around the world
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 12th, 2018
Large Organizations Face Up to Several Million Targeted Bot Attacks per Day
Some botnets are capable of a million attacks per hour
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- December 6th, 2018
IoT Botnets Behind 78% of Malware Network Events in 2018 According to Report
150 million devices used during the malware analysis process
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 28th, 2018
Multimillion-Dollar Online Ad Fraud Operation Taken Down
The ad fraud network faked ad traffic using 1.7 million IPs
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 20th, 2018
200K Outlaw Botnet Uses SSH Brute Forcing to Propagate, Monero Mining for Profit
Botnet kills and hijacks active miners with its own binaries
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 16th, 2018
Mylobot Botnet Now Exfiltrates Data Using Second Stage Khalesi Trojan
The botnet is also capable of DDoS and ransomware attacks
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 2nd, 2018
Shellbot Variant Used in New Botnet, Spreads Using IoT and Linux Vulnerabilities
Can also compromise Android and Windows devices
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31st, 2018
Emotet Adds Email Exfiltration Module, Tens of Thousands of Servers at Risk
Botnet admins can deploy module to all infected systems
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 26th, 2018
Exploits Block List Grows 50% Because of Spambot, Avalanche/Gamarue botnet
Spamhaus' XBL grew from 10M to 15M listings in a few weeks
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 26th, 2018
16K Strong DDoS-for-Hire Botnet Provides 420+ GB/s Club to Knock Out Websites
Yet another Mirai fork that kills other bots on sight
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 23rd, 2018
Chalubo DDoS Botnet Compromises Linux SSH Servers Using Brute-Force Attacks
Attackers use brute-force SSH attacks to compromise targets
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 8th, 2018
Hide and Seek IoT Botnet Now Spreads to New Android Devices Using ADB over Wi-Fi
Takes advantage of remote connections without authentication
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 3rd, 2018
Instagram Used as Marketplace to Sell Stolen Fortnite Accounts and Botnets
Botnet access is also available as a monthly subscription
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 28th, 2018
Stealthy and Persistent Torii IoT Botnet Infects Devices via Telnet
The malware can compromise a large array of architectures
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 21st, 2018
US Under Attack from Virobot Ransomware with Botnet and Keylogger Traits
Spreads via Microsoft Outlook spam e-mails
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 17th, 2018
Researchers Found New Worm with Botnet, Ransomware, and Coinmining Abilities
New malware family targets both Linux and Windows
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 12th, 2018
DDoS Attacks Almost Five Times More Powerful Because of IoT Botnets
Maximum recorded attack size in Q2 2018 was 359 Gbps