P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. According to Cado ...

U.S. authorities seized KimWolf - the attack infrastructure responsible for the largest distributed denial of service attack ...

Dutch coppers have pulled the plug on the Grum botnet just a week after the servers were identified by malware intelligence firm FireEye. The speedy removal of the servers shines light on how quickly ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

A Linux-based botnet is alive and well, powering cryptocurrency theft and financial scams years after the imprisonment of one the key perpetrators behind it. The Ebury botnet — which was first ...

I made the most common homelab security mistake of all time (and I'm not alone) ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

Security firm FireEye helps bring down the world's third-largest spam botnet, and its spam drops from a deluge down to a trickle One down, two more to go? On Wednesday a Russian Internet service ...