Botnet

Chinese Hackers Failed To Defeat FBI Botnet Takedown

FBI disrupts Chinese 'state-sponsored' hackers 'Flax Typhoon', who tried to resist takedown of 260,000-device botnet

2 months ago

Int’l Police Target Botnets In ‘Operation Endgame’

Police in Europe, US target multiple botnets in biggest-ever coordinated cyber action to disrupt 'dropper' infrastructure

6 months ago

Botnet Controlled By Russia’s GRU Disrupted By US, UK

Botnet controlled by Russian military intelligence disrupted by the United States, which removed GRU control of thousands of infected devices

3 years ago

Emotet Botnet Offline After Global Takedown By Police

Good news. One of the world's most dangerous botnets, Emotet, has been taken down in a co-ordinated police operation around…

4 years ago

Some Laptops For Vulnerable Children Contain Malware – Report

A small number of laptops handed out by the Department for Education to vulnerable children, reportedly contain malware linked to…

4 years ago

Microsoft Takes Down Trickbot Hacking Operation

Another takedown from Microsoft sees it disrupt key Trickbot servers, which it said could have indirectly impact US election infrastructure

4 years ago

Researchers Take Down Massive Crypto-Mining Botnet

VictoryGate crypto-mining botnet infected at least 35,000 systems, mostly in Peru, and continues to spread via infected removable USB drives

5 years ago

Microsoft And Others Takedown Botnet Necurs

One of the world's largest botnets that was responsible for multiple scams and infected over nine million computers, has been…

5 years ago

French Cyber Police Takedown Paris-based Botnet

C3N cybercrime unit, along with the FBI and Avast, take down French botnet that infected 850,000 computers

5 years ago

More Than 25,000 Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers Found Leaking Sensitive Data

The issue appears to be due to an incomplete patch for a known issue dating from 2014

6 years ago

New Mirai Variant Targets Enterprise Networks

Researchers warn businesses to be vigilant as notorious IoT botnet looks to take over enterprise devices

6 years ago

Gozi Banking Malware Returns, Backed By ‘Dark Cloud’ Botnet

The infamous Gozi banking Trojan is being used in targeted attacks deployed over surprisingly sophisticated botnet infrastructure, finds Cisco

7 years ago

Fast-Spreading Botnet Infects Android Gadgets For Crypto-Mining

A botnet that surfaced over the weekend spread to thousands of smartphones and set-top boxes in the first hours of…

7 years ago

Satori Botnet Wakes Up And Enlists 263,000 Bots

Variant of the more infamous Mirai malware starting to propagate very quickly, researchers warn

7 years ago

Gamarue Botnet Disrupted In Global Operation

Law enforcement agencies around the world close down long-running botnets powered by Gamarue malware

7 years ago

Mirai-Like IoT Botnet ‘Has Already Hacked Millions Of Devices’

The Reaper botnet is expanding more aggressively than Mirai did and has the potential to cause more disruption, researchers say

7 years ago

Spambot Contains 711 Million Email Addresses

Huge data breach. Misconfigured spambot reveals 700m email addresses and number of passwords

7 years ago

IBM: Targeted Spam Malware Sticks To Working Hours

Malware spam is targeting organisations by closely following European and US work patterns, finds new research from IBM X-Force

7 years ago

Botnets Target FCC Website Over Net Neutrality, Researchers Say

Researchers claim bots are spamming US regulator website over net neutrality rule change proposal

8 years ago

Persirai Botnet Targets Internet-Connected Cameras

Following Mirai, the Persirai botnet is the latest to take over connected devices and use them to launch denial-of-service attacks

8 years ago

BrickerBot Malware ‘Disables Two Million Devices’

A malware family aimed at 'bricking' devices before they can be infected by Mirai has allegedly rendered millions of vulnerable…

8 years ago

US Dismantles Kelihos Botnet After ‘Spam Kingpin’ Arrest

Russian Pyotr Levashov, suspected of being one of the Internet's biggest spam and malware operators, is arrested in Spain

8 years ago

Mirai Botnet Starts Mining For Bitcoins In New Twist

Researchers discover a new strain of the notorious Mirai botnet which goes bitcoin hunting

8 years ago

Mirai Botnet Hits US College With Massive 54 Hour Attack

Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack

8 years ago

Necurs Botnet Targets Users With Old-School Stock Scam

Getting emails about a once-in-a-lifetime stock opportunity? It's probably too good to be true

8 years ago

Imeij Botnet Malware Targets IoT Cameras

The Imeij malware exploits a bug in AVTech video surveillance equipment first disclosed last year, but never patched by the…

8 years ago

Sophos: IoT Malware Growing More Sophisticated

The malware targeting connected devices is using increasingly complex techniques, Sophos has found

8 years ago

Hacker Takes Over 150,000 Exposed Printers

Mystery messages warn users to secure their network-connected printers

8 years ago

Journalist Brian Krebs ‘Unmasks’ Mirai Botnet Developer

The IoT botnet code was used to power an attack that knocked Twitter and Netflix offline last year

8 years ago

Mirai UK Botnet Consists Mostly Of TalkTalk Routers

The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of…

8 years ago