Security News

The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
2025-03-07 01:51

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the...

New Eleven11bot botnet infects 86,000 devices for DDoS attacks
2025-03-04 20:10

A new botnet malware named 'Eleven11bot' has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks. [...]

Vo1d Botnet's Peak Surpasses 1.59M Infected Android TVs, Spanning 226 Countries
2025-03-03 05:17

Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, and Thailand have become the targets of a campaign that has infected Android TV devices with a botnet malware dubbed Vo1d. The improved variant of Vo1d...

Week in review: Botnet hits M365 accounts, PoC for Ivanti Endpoint Manager vulnerabilities released
2025-03-02 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Massive botnet hits Microsoft 365 accounts A recently discovered botnet of over 130,000...

Vo1d malware botnet grows to 1.6 million Android TVs worldwide
2025-02-27 22:49

A new variant of the Vo1d malware botnet has grown to 1,590,299 infected Android TV devices across 226 countries, recruiting devices as part of anonymous proxy server networks. [...]

PolarEdge Botnet Exploits Cisco and Other Flaws to Hijack ASUS, QNAP, and Synology Devices
2025-02-27 09:20

A new malware campaign has been observed targeting edge devices from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology to rope them into a botnet named PolarEdge since at least the end of 2023. French cybersecurity...

Botnet targets Basic Auth in Microsoft 365 password spray attacks
2025-02-24 17:49

A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, attempting to confirm credentials. [...]

Massive botnet hits Microsoft 365 accounts
2025-02-24 13:11

A recently discovered botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is launching coordinated password-spraying attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. Security researchers at SecurityScorecard...

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks
2025-01-30 06:41

A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of...

New Aquabotv3 botnet malware targets Mitel command injection flaw
2025-01-30 00:55

A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet malware Aquabot has been observed actively exploiting CVE-2024-41710, a command injection vulnerability in Mitel SIP phones. [...]