Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2025
New botnet HTTPBot is targeting China’s gaming, tech, and education sectors, cybersecurity researchers warn. NSFOCUS cybersecurity discovered a new botnet called HTTPBot that has been used to target the gaming industry, technology firms, and educational institutions in China. HTTPBot is a Go-based botnet first detected in August 2024, however, its activity surged by April 2025. The botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2025
Law enforcement dismantled a 20-year botnet behind Anyproxy and 5socks cybercriminals services and arrested four suspects. Authorities dismantled a 20-year-old botnet tied to Anyproxy and 5socks as part of an international operation codenamed “Operation Moonlander”; four men, including three Russians, were indicted for running the illegal proxy networks. The U.S. Justice Department charged Russian nationals, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2025
Mirai-based botnets are exploiting a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-1316, in Edimax IP cameras, to achieve remote command execution. US CISA warns that multiple botnets are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-1316 (CVSS score of 9.8), in Edimax IC-7100 IP cameras. The issue is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2025
A botnet of 130,000+ devices is attacking Microsoft 365 accounts via password-spraying, bypassing MFA by exploiting basic authentication. SecurityScorecard researchers discovered a botnet of over 130,000 devices that is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide. The attackers targeted accounts protected with basic authentication bypassing multi-factor authentication. The experts pointed out that organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2025
A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet Aquabot targets vulnerable Mitel SIP phones to recruit them into a DDoS botnet. Akamai researchers spotted a new variant of the Mirai-based botnet Aquabot that is targeting vulnerable Mitel SIP phones. Aquabot is a Mirai-based botnet designed for DDoS attacks. Named after the âAquaâ filename, it was first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2024
Akamai researchers discovered a new Mirai botnet variant targeting a vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro DVRs. Akamai researchers spotted a Mirai-based botnet that is exploiting an remote code execution vulnerability in DigiEver DS-2105 Pro NVRs. The experts pointed out that this Mirai variant has been modified to use improved encryption algorithms. The Mirai variant incorporates ChaCha20 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2024
Experts uncovered a botnet of 190,000 Android devices infected by BadBox bot, primarily Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones. Bitsight researchers uncovered new BADBOX infrastructure, company’s telemetry shows that over 192,000 devices were infected with the BADBOX bot. The botnet includes 160,000 previously unseen devices, notably Yandex 4K QLED Smart TVs and T963 Hisense Smartphones. Most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2024
The German agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet composed of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) announced it had blocked communication between the 30,000 devices infected with the BadBox malware and the C2. The devices were all located in Germany, they were all using outdated Android versions. “The Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2024
China’s Volt Typhoon botnet has re-emerged, using the same core infrastructure and techniques, according to SecurityScorecard researchers. The China-linked Volt Typhoon’s botnet has resurfaced using the same infrastructure and techniques, per SecurityScorecard researchers. In May 2023, Microsoft reported that the Volt Typhoon APT infiltrated critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Guam without being detected. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2024
Researchers warn of a new IoT botnet called Raptor Train that already compromised over 200,000 devices worldwide. Cybersecurity researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new botnet, named Raptor Train, composed of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices. The experts believe the botnet is controlled by a Chine-linked APT group Flax Typhoon (also […]
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