A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

Security researchers have uncovered a new Mirai-based botnet that uses zero-day exploits for industrial routers and smart home devices to spread. The offensively named “gayfemboy” botnet was first ...

According to researchers, the botnet has been attacking hundreds of targets every day since its discovery in February 2024. The number of daily active bot IPs is 15,000, most of which are located in ...

The Akamai Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) has detected increased activity targeting a rarely used TCP port across its global honeypots. The investigation conducted in late October 2023 ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

Juniper Networks has warned customers of Mirai malware attacks scanning the Internet for Session Smart routers using default credentials. As the networking infrastructure company explained, the ...

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 ...

Industrial control systems and critical infrastructure operators are being warned about a campaign leveraging a known zero-day vulnerability in remote monitoring cameras to spread Mirai cryptominer ...

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

CloudFlare spotted a new botnet in the wild which launched massive DDoS attacks aimed at the US West Coast for 10 days in a row. A new monster botnet, which hasn’t been given a name yet, has been ...