A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet – that’s actively targeting vulnerable D-Link and Internet of Things devices – is the first variant of the malware to rely on Tor communications, researchers say.
Last week, Google announced that it had partially disrupted the operations of a massive botnet—a gargantuan network of over one million malware-infected Windows computers. In the world of ...
The PurpleFox botnet has refreshed its arsenal with new vulnerability exploits and dropped payloads, now also leveraging WebSockets for C2 bidirectional communication. Although it's mainly based in ...
A novel Go-based Linux botnet, dubbed "PumaBot," has been observed targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. PumaBot differentiates itself from typical botnets by remotely retrieving a list of ...
During every quarter last year, between 10% and 16% of organizations had DNS traffic originating on their networks towards command-and-control (C2) servers associated with known botnets and various ...
According to new research published by Akamai on Tuesday, the technique is being harnessed by operators of a long-running cryptocurrency mining botnet campaign, in which BTC blockchain transactions ...
A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...
A stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon has been infecting over 70,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers, creating a botnet primarily aimed at stealing bandwidth and operating as a hidden ...