botnet

ElectrumDoSMiner botnet reached 152,000 hosts

Researchers at Malwarebytes are monitoring the evolution of the ElectrumDoSMiner DDoS botnet that reached 152,000 infected hosts. MalwareBytes researchers are…

7 years ago

Russian Twitter bot activity increased in the wake Mueller report release

Experts at security firm SafeGuard reported that Russian Twitter bot activity raised up by 286 percent in the wake of…

7 years ago

Experts spotted a new Mirai variant that targets new processors

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous…

7 years ago

A new development shows a potential shift to using Mirai to target enterprises

PaloAlto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. Researchers…

7 years ago

Fbot malware targets HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc devices

Experts at 360Netlab observed the Fbot bot infecting a large number of HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc devices. Since February 16, 2019,…

7 years ago

British hacker sentenced to jail for attack on Liberian Telecoms firms

The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British…

7 years ago

5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are…

7 years ago

WordPress botnet composed of +20k installs targets other sites

Experts from security firm Wordfence discovered a Botnet of 20,000 WordPress Sites Infecting other WordPress installs. Experts from security firm…

7 years ago

ETERNALSILENCE – 270K+ devices vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet build using NSA hacking tools

Over 270,000 connected devices run vulnerable implementations of UPnP, threat actors are attempting to recruit them in a multi-purpose botnet.…

7 years ago

Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw

Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in…

7 years ago

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