Botnet

New Botnet Exploiting DNS Records Misconfiguration To Deliver Malware

Botnets are the networks of compromised devices that have evolved significantly since the internet's inception. Threat actors exploit vulnerabilities to…

1 month ago

Mirai Botnet Variant Exploits Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Routers

Researchers observed the Gayfemboy botnet in early 2024 as a basic Mirai variant. Still, the botnet rapidly evolved through iterative…

2 months ago

New Botnet Exploiting D-Link Routers To Gain Control Remotely

Researchers observed a recent surge in activity from the "FICORA" and "CAPSAICIN," both variants of Mirai and Kaiten, respectively, which…

2 months ago

Chinese Botnet As-A-Service Bypasses Cloudflare & Other DDoS Protection Services

A large botnet-as-a-service network originating from China was discovered, which comprises numerous domains, over 20 active Telegram groups, and utilizes…

10 months ago

Anonymous Sudan Promoting New DDoS Botnet: Beware

It has come to light that a group known as Anonymous Sudan is actively promoting a new Distributed Denial of…

1 year ago

Malicious Chrome Plugin Let Remote Attacker Steal keystroke and Inject Malicious Code

Researchers at Zimperium zLabs recently identified a new Chrome browser botnet called 'Cloud9' that is intent on stealing the following…

2 years ago

Mantis – Behind The Most Powerful Botnet Attack Ever Recorded With 26 Million RPS

Several attacks targeting almost 1,000 Cloudflare customers were traced back to the botnet that was responsible for the largest HTTPS…

3 years ago

A New Golang-based (P2P) Botnet “Panchan” Actively Attacking Linux Servers

A new P2P botnet targeting Linux servers has been tracked recently by Akamai security researchers. The botnet network has been…

3 years ago

Hackers Spreading Hoaxcalls DDoS Botnet by Exploiting an Unpatched ZyXel RCE 0-Day Bug Remotely

Researchers uncovered a new variant of Hoaxcalls Botnet that spreading through exploiting the unpatched remote code vulnerability that resides in…

5 years ago

Law enforcement and Microsoft Shutdown a Major Malware Attack by Mapping 400,000 IP’s

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) uncovered an IoT botnet operation that 100 times within one month. Analyzing further DCU team…

5 years ago