botnet

Crooks expand the original Mirai botnet code base with new capabilities and improvements

Cybercriminals continue to improve the infamous Mirai botnet by adding new exploits and functionalities, experts warn new dangerous variant will appear…

8 years ago

Researchers And The FBI Work Together to Take Down the Russian VPNFilter Botnet Targeting Home Routers

Researchers and the FBI are working together to take down the dreaded VPNFilter botnet composed of hundreds of thousands of…

8 years ago

Justice Department announces actions to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet

The Justice Department announced an effort to disrupt the VPNFilter botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office…

8 years ago

Huge Russia-Linked botnet VPNFilter ready to launch a massive attack on Ukraine

Security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of…

8 years ago

TheMoon botnet is now leveraging a zero-day to target GPON routers

Security experts from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered the operators behind the TheMoon botnet are now leveraging a zero-day exploit to target…

8 years ago

Updated – The new Wicked Mirai botnet leverages at least three new exploits

Security experts from Fortinet have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet dubbed 'Wicked Mirai', it includes new exploits…

8 years ago

Experts uncovered a proxy botnet composed of over 65,000 routers exposed via UPnP protocol

Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the…

8 years ago

GoScanSSH Malware spread avoiding Government and Military networks

Security experts at Cisco Talos discovered a new piece of malware dubbed GoScanSSH that was being used to compromise SSH servers…

8 years ago

The RottenSys botnet is already composed of nearly 5 million Android devices

RottenSys - A Chinese crime ring is building a huge botnet that is already composed of nearly 5 million Android…

8 years ago

Chaos backdoor, a malicious code that returns from the past targets Linux servers

Security experts from GoSecure, hackers are launching SSH brute-force attacks on poorly secured Linux servers to deploy a backdoor dubbed Chaos backdoor.…

8 years ago

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