Pro US authorities take down a Mirai-variant botnet tied to DDoS threat FBI-led operation to disrupt a China-linked botnet comes months after a similar operation in January linked to Volt Typhoon 19 Sep
Pro Microsoft warns of new botnet variant targeting Windows and Linux systems The Sysrv botnet is back and equipped with more exploits though the primary goal of installing cryptominers remains the same 16 May
Pro Ukrainian man who used a botnet to decrypt login credentials extradited to US The 28-year-old allegedly sold passwords to other criminals on the Dark Web 10 Sep
Pro Diavol ransomware linked to Trickbot botnet Security researchers find links between Diavol malware and the Wizard Spider crime gang 2 Jul
Pro Dark Nexus: evolving IoT botnet targets variety of devices Botnet has high persistence and is capable of delivering different types of malware in addition to launching DDoS attacks 9 Apr
Pro New DDoS botnet targets ARC-based IoT devices Meet Mirai Okiru and brace for the DDoS botnet targeting 'billions' of ARC-based IoT devices 16 Jan
Life What is a botnet? And why they aren’t going away anytime soon Controlling thousands or even millions of devices gives cyber attackers the upper hand to deliver malware or conduct a DDoS attack 7 Dec
Pro Security firms coordinate to neutralise WireX botnet Researchers from at least seven organisations worked jointly to dismantle the WireX botnet after multiple DDoS attacks 29 Aug
Pro Mirai is the hydra of IoT security: too many heads to cut off Some botnets have been disbanded, but new uses continue to emerge 14 Mar
Pro Rise of the IoT machines How can enterprises protect themselves from DDoS attacks by IoT devices? 28 Oct
Pro The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets Public posting of the source code shows it is script-kiddie simple 28 Oct
Pro IoT botnet is partly behind massive DDoS attack DVRs and other devices compromised with the Mirai malware are being the attack 24 Oct
Pro Botnet of hijacked IoT devices delivers massive DDoS attack Attack was so powerful that Akamai threw up its hands 26 Sep
Pro Asprox botnet, a long-running nuisance, disappears Operators may be regrouping to evade detection, according to Palo Alto Networks 11 Aug
Pro Internal Botnet activity predicts future data breach likelihood Organisations with the highest activity are more than twice as likely to have been breached 10 Apr
Life US offers $3m reward for Gameover Zeus suspect DoJ hopes cash will reinvigorate hunt for alleged botnet administrator 25 Feb
Pro Revived Gameover Zeus botnet keeps growing Malware variant has infected over 10,000 systems so far, researchers say 15 Aug
Life Law enforcement agencies disrupt Gameover Zeus botnet US courts unseal charges releated to giant botnet, Cryptolocker ransomware 3 Jun
Pro Researchers find global botnet of infected PoS systems 1,500 strong botnet compromised point-of-sale systems in 36 countries 27 May
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