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Security researchers report the largest known botnet has grown tenfold to 13.5 million devices, fueling a sustained 2Tbps DDoS attack on a betting sector target. The escalation underscores the rising ...

In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also ...

On October 30th, Cloudfare data identified a strange website that briefly surpassed Google as the most popular website globally. However, it wasn’t a website at all – It was a massive ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

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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 ...

The Justice Department said the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General’s (DoDIG) Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) executed seizure warrants targeting multiple U.S.-registered ...

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet. For years, CSOs have been fighting botnets that are stealing ...