Outbound Attacks Impact Broadband and Mobile Services – Extensive direct-path attacks revealed that compromised IoT and customer-premises equipment can generate outbound floods exceeding 1 Tbps, ...

How did OpenClaw become botnet infrastructure so quickly? DataDome analyzes the hijacked AI agents scraping sites at scale ...

NetScout Systems has released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence ...

Another botnet built on the foundations of the infamous Mirai has been recently spotted in the wild, but only briefly - suggesting it might be preparing for a major attack. Security researchers from ...

Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy ...

A newly identified botnet loader is shifting command-and-control (C2) operations onto the Polygon blockchain, eliminating the ...

Aeternum C2, a native C++ botnet loader, operates on smart contracts on the Polygon blockchain, increasing its resilience.

A new RondoDox botnet campaign uses an "exploit shotgun" - fire at everything, see what hits - to target 56 vulnerabilities across at least 30 different vendors' routers, DVRs, CCTV systems, web ...

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2 ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

A sharp increase in attacks targeting PHP servers, internet of things (IoT) devices and cloud gateways has been identified by cybersecurity researchers. The latest report by the Qualys Threat Research ...