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FBI takes down major botnet but accidentally frees 95,000 devices

Hackers took over the very same hacked devices the FBI had just cleaned out. What was supposed to be a federal win turned ...
PC Magazine

'Hobby Project' Botnet Downloaded Anime for 8 Years

The botnet amassed over 10,000 bots using a vulnerability in D-Link hardware. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get ...
ZDNet

DreamBus botnet targets enterprise apps running on Linux servers

Chances are that if you deploy a Linux server online these days and you leave even the tiniest weakness exposed, a cybercrime group will ensnare it as part of its botnet. The latest of these threats ...
ZDNet

New FreakOut botnet targets Linux systems running unpatched software

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut botnet ...
Bleeping Computer

New ZHtrap botnet malware deploys honeypots to find more targets

A new botnet is hunting down and transforming infected routers, DVRs, and UPnP network devices into honeypots that help it find other targets to infect. The malware, dubbed ZHtrap by the 360 Netlab ...
Bleeping Computer

New Condi malware builds DDoS botnet out of TP-Link AX21 routers

A new DDoS-as-a-Service botnet called "Condi" emerged in May 2023, exploiting a vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Wi-Fi routers to build an army of bots to conduct attacks. AX1800 is a ...
Threat Post

Sysrv-K Botnet Targets Windows, Linux

Microsoft researchers say they are tracking a botnet that is leveraging bugs in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins. Unpatched vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins are ...
WeLiveSecurity

Following ESET’s discovery, a Monero mining botnet is disrupted

ESET researchers recently discovered a previously undocumented botnet that we have named VictoryGate. It has been active since at least May 2019 and, since then, three different variants of the ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Microsoft Identifies Botnet Variant Targeting Windows and Linux Systems

Microsoft has warned it has discovered a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, which deploys coin miners on both Windows and Linux systems. In a thread posted on the Microsoft Security Intelligence ...
TechCrunch

Google disrupts Russian botnet that infected 1 million Windows machines

Google is suing two Russian individuals it claims are behind a sophisticated botnet operation that has silently infiltrated more than 1 million Windows machines worldwide. In a complaint filed in the ...
Ars Technica

Trickbot—the for-hire botnet Microsoft attacked—is scrambling to stay alive

Operators of Trickbot—a for-hire botnet that has infected more than 1 million devices since 2016—are looking for new ways to stay afloat after Microsoft and a host of industry partners took ...