botnet

Researchers dismantled ShuangQiang gang’s botnet that infected thousands of PCs

A joint operations conducted by experts from Chinese firms Qihoo 360 Netlab and Baidu dismantle the ShuangQiang 's botnet infecting over…

6 years ago

Both Mirai and Hoaxcalls IoT botnets target Symantec Web Gateways

Experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered that the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets are targeting a vulnerability in legacy Symantec Web…

6 years ago

Kaiji, a new Linux malware targets IoT devices in the wild

Security researchers spotted a new piece of DDoS bot dubbed Kaiji that is targeting IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks.…

6 years ago

Previously undetected VictoryGate Botnet already infected 35,000 devices

Experts managed to sinkhole several C2 servers of the VictoryGate botnet that already infected over 35,000 devices and propagates via…

6 years ago

Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities.…

6 years ago

Law enforcement and Microsoft join forces to dismantle botnet using LED Light Control Console

Cybercriminals have abused LED light control console to launch malicious attacks, Microsoft’s security experts warn. Microsoft researchers shared details of…

6 years ago

Vollgar botnet has managed to infect around 3k MSSQL DB servers daily

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers…

6 years ago

Mukashi, the new Mirai variant that targets Zyxel NAS

A new variant of the infamous Mirai malware, tracked as Mukashi, targets Zyxel network-attached storage (NAS) devices exploiting recently patched CVE-2020-9054…

6 years ago

The Mystery of Fbot

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot…

6 years ago

New Mozi P2P Botnet targets Netgear, D-Link, Huawei routers

A new Mozi P2P botnet is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to…

6 years ago

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