botnet

Necurs botnet is behind seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam

Necurs botnet made headline again, the experts at IBM X-Force research team observed a spike in seasonal campaigns of Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails. Necurs…

8 years ago

Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed 'Smominru' that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them…

8 years ago

Italian companies and Ministry of the Interior under attack, experts spotted a huge botnet

Threat actors with a deep knowledge of the Fiscal Italian ecosystem are using a huge botnet to target Italian companies…

8 years ago

Necurs botnet involved in massive ransomware campaigns at the end of 2017

The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of…

8 years ago

Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online

The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available.…

8 years ago

Satori is the latest Mirai botnet variant that is targeting Huawei HG532 home routers

Satori botnet, Mirai variant, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532…

8 years ago

US DoJ charges 3 Men with developing and running the Mirai Botnet

The US DoJ announced plea agreements for Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, 21 for creating and operating the…

8 years ago

Using Unsecured IoT Devices, DDoS Attacks Doubled in the First Half of 2017

According to a report recently published by the security firm Corero the number of DDoS Attacks doubled in the First…

8 years ago

One Third of The Internet Has Seen a DDoS Attack In The Past Two Years

A group of researchers has conducted a rigorous comprehensive characterization of this DDoS attacks and of countermeasures to mitigate the associated risks.…

8 years ago

Exclusive – CSE ZLab experts spotted a new Wonder botnet in the wild

The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab spotted a new botnet, dubbed Wonder botnet, while it was investigating malicious code in…

8 years ago

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