RuNet’s Biggest DDoS Problem
A new distributed DDoS botnet that kept hammering Russian internet giant Yandex for the past month, the attack peaking at the unprecedented rate of 21.8 million requests per second. The…
Phorpiex Bots Shuts Down
The master mind behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code of the bot for sale on a cybercrime forum in on a dark…
Mozi P2P Bots in to Action
Mozi botnet was improved by implementing news capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE says the researchers. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and…
Botnet Caused Biggest DDoS Attacks
The attack, which targeted an unnamed financial provider, was mitigated without any human intervention. Last month, someone attempted to launch one of the largest (DDoS) attacks on record to take…
HolesWarm Botnet in Action
A new botnet named HolesWarm has been slowly growing in the shadow exploiting more than 20 known vulnerabilities to break into Windows and Linux servers and then deploy cryptocurrency-mining malware.…
DirtyMoe Bots Infects Windows
A Warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet (PurpleFox, Perkiler, and NuggetPhantom), gone 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Experts defined…
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533Mn Fb account sold via Telegram bot
533 million users phone number are currently being sold via a bot on encrypted messaging platform Telegram, which came from a Facebook vulnerability that was patched by the social network…
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Dreambus The Bot
Researches is tracking a new botnet dubbed DreamBus that's installing the XMRig cryptominer on powerful enterprise-class Linux and Unix systems with the goal of using their computing power to mine…