Cybersecurity researchers at Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs recently detailed the works of the SyxtemBC botnet, active since early 2019, which has quietly amassed more than 80 command-and-control ...

Hyper-volumetric distributed denial of service attacks in the first quarter of 2023 shifted from compromised IoT devices to using breached Virtual Private Servers. Security outfit Cloudflare has noted ...

The FBI has dismantled a massive network of compromised devices that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have used for four years to mount attacks on government agencies, telecoms, defense contractors, ...

Hyper-volumetric DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in the first quarter of 2023 have shifted from relying on compromised IoT devices to leveraging breached Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

RondoDox botnet exploits 56 vulnerabilities across 30+ internet-connected device types Its “exploit shotgun” approach is noisy, attracting defenders but compromising diverse hardware Patching devices, ...

Security researchers have uncovered what could be the biggest ever botnet, capable of “crippling digital assaults” that could take down entire companies. Hackers performed what appeared to be a test ...

A Chinese national has been arrested for his role in operating a residential proxy service that was used to defraud billions of dollars from the U.S. government and fund his lavish lifestyle, which ...

A cryptomining botnet that has been active since 2019 has added a likely AI-generated ransomware to its operations. New analysis by FortiCNAPP team, part of FortiGuard Labs, has identified the first ...

In recent days you may have heard about the terrifying botnet consisting of 3 million electric toothbrushes that were infected with malware. While you absent-mindedly attended to your oral hygiene, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in ...

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The company has traced the incident to a powerful botnet called Aisuru. A new ...