botnet

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2021
SharkBot, a new Android Trojan targets banks in Europe

Security researchers from Cleafy discovered a new Android banking trojan, named SharkBot, that is targeting banks in Europe. At the end of October, researchers from cyber security firms Cleafy and ThreatFabric have discovered a new Android banking trojan named SharkBot. The name comes after one of the domains used for its command and control servers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2021
Cloudflare mitigated 2 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest attack it has seen to date

Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. The company announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2 terabytes per second (Tbps), which […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2021
BotenaGo botnet targets millions of IoT devices using 33 exploits

Researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that is using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo is a new botnet discovered by researchers at AT&T that leverages thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. Below is the list of exploits used by the bot: Vulnerability  Affected devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2021
Pink Botnet infected over 1.6 Million Devices, it is one of the largest botnet ever seen

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices most of them located in China. Qihoo 360’s Netlab Cybersecurity researchers discovered a huge botnet, tracked as Pink, that already infected over 1.6 million devices. The botnet was created to launch DDoS attacks and to insert advertisements in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2021
Necro botnet now targets Visual Tools DVRs

The FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet evolves, it now includes a recently published PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR. Operators behind the FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet have added a PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR, a professional digital video recorder used in surveillance video systems. The POC exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2021
Security Service of Ukraine arrested a man operating a huge DDoS botnet

Ukrainian police arrested a cybercriminal who controlled a botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent to launch DDoS attacks. Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested a hacker who controlled a DDoS botnet composed of 100,000 devices that was available for rent. The botnet was also used for other malicious activities, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2021
Mēris Bot infects MikroTik routers compromised in 2018

Latvian vendor MikroTik revealed that recently discovered Mēris botnet is targeting devices that were compromised three years ago. Last week, the Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country to an […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2021
Yandex is under the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet

The Russian internet service provider Yandex is under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began last week. The Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2021
Mozi infections will slightly decrease but it will stay alive for some time to come

The Mozi botnet continues to spread despite the arrest of its alleged author and experts believe that it will run for many other years.  Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware, it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Mozi P2P Botnet also targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE devices

Mozi botnet continues to evolve, its authors implemented new capabilities to target Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE network gateways. Microsoft researchers reported that the Mozi botnet was improved by implementing news capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware, it appeared […]