botnet

Kelihos botmaster Peter Levashov gets time served

A US federal judge sentenced Russian hacker Peter Levashov to 33 months, time served, and three years of supervised release…

4 years ago

Trickbot improve its VNC module in recent attacks

Trickbot botnet is back, its authors implemented updates for the VNC module used for remote control of infected systems. The…

4 years ago

DirtyMoe botnet infected 100,000+ Windows systems in H1 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than…

4 years ago

US arrested Latvian woman who developed part of Trickbot malware

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Latvian woman for her alleged role in the development…

5 years ago

Discovery of Simps Botnet Leads To Ties to Keksec Group

Uptycs' threat research team discovered a new botnet, tracked as Simps botnet, attributed to Keksec group, which is focused on…

5 years ago

Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

The Cuba Ransomware gang has partnered with the crooks behind the Hancitor malware in attacks aimed at corporate networks. The Hancitor downloader…

5 years ago

FBI shares with HIBP 4 million email addresses involved in Emotet attacks

The FBI has shared with Have I Been Pwned service 4 million email addresses collected by Emotet botnet and employed…

5 years ago

Pareto Botnet, million infected Android devices conduct fraud in the CTV ad ecosystem

Researchers from Human Security have uncovered a huge botnet of Android devices being used to conduct fraud in the connected…

5 years ago

Mirai code re-use in Gafgyt

Uptycs' threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “Gafgyt,”some of them re-used Mirai code. …

5 years ago

New ZHtrap botnet uses honeypot to find more victims

Netlab 360 experts discovered a new Mirai-based botnet dubbed ZHtrap that implements honeypot to find more victims. Researchers from Netlab…

5 years ago

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