In May 2026, federal prosecutors in Alaska unsealed charges against an Oregon man accused of running a DDoS-for-hire botnet called “Rapper Bot” that allegedly powered more than 370,000 attacks against ...
Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of 17 million devices and seized more than 200 servers at a local provider that supported the operation.
Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the ...
CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation worked together to take down a botnet that poisoned over 300 GitHub ...
Supply chain chaos, old bugs, smarter phishing, and botnets everywhere — here’s what broke the internet this week.
Cybersecurity writer Brian Krebs says smart TVs and even wifi routers can be conduits for malicious software that infect home devices. Routers, computers, web cameras — they all connect to the ...
The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department. The collection of millions of ...
A global coalition of law enforcement agencies shut down a botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked home and small business routers on Wednesday. The operation targeted SocksEscort, which offered ...
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A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...
For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...
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 ...