Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers and add them to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth ...

Botnets are one of the key drivers of cyberattacks, used to distribute malware, ransomware and other malicious payloads – and dark web forums are now offering lessons on how to make money from them, a ...

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A high-severity vulnerability plaguing old Cisco routers is being used to build a malicious, global botnet, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers Sekoia published an in-depth report on the ...

Bottom line: The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the shady individuals behind the notorious 911 S5 botnet hacking operation. This malicious network of compromised residential computers ...

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have spotted a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet, spreading to Linux-based servers and IoT devices in order to create an enormous swarm of DDoS ...

A new Mirai botnet variant tracked as ‘V3G4’ targets 13 vulnerabilities in Linux-based servers and IoT devices to use in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. The malware spreads by ...

After lying low for several weeks, hackers responsible for spreading the Storm Trojan have returned to the attack with e-mail that leads to an exploit-filled Web site and a laughing cat, said ...

It's natural for cloud providers to offer free samples. But it turns out you can stitch together thousands of those free samples to create one big botnet, as two researchers explained Wednesday at the ...

A full 39 percent of Counter-Strike 1.6 game servers on Steam were found to be malicious. A proprietor of a Counter-Strike gaming server promotion service has used multiple zero-days in the ...