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Unpatched AVTECH IP Camera Flaw Exploited by Hackers for Botnet Attacks
2024-08-29 11:05

A years-old high-severity flaw impacting AVTECH IP cameras has been weaponized by malicious actors as a zero-day to rope them into a botnet. CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), the vulnerability in...

New Gafgyt Botnet Variant Targets Weak SSH Passwords for GPU Crypto Mining
2024-08-15 05:12

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that's targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power. The infected devices are corralled into a botnet capable of launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against targets of interest.

Mirai Botnet targeting OFBiz Servers Vulnerable to Directory Traversal
2024-08-02 10:52

The SANS Internet Storm Center published a report showing how the open-source ERP framework OFBiz is currently the target of new varieties of the Mirai botnet. The update fixed a directory traversal vulnerability that could lead to remote command execution.

New Golang-Based Zergeca Botnet Capable of Powerful DDoS Attacks
2024-07-05 03:52

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new botnet called Zergeca that's capable of conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Written in Golang, the botnet is so named for its...

OVHcloud blames record-breaking DDoS attack on MikroTik botnet
2024-07-03 18:07

Analyzing some of those attacks revealed the extensive use of core network devices, particularly Mikrotik models, making the attacks more impactful and challenging to detect and stop. Record-breaking DDoS. Earlier this year, OVHcloud had to mitigate a massive packet rate attack that reached 840 Mpps, surpassing the previous record holder, an 809 Mpps DDoS attack targeting a European bank, which Akamai mitigated in June 2020.

Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads
2024-06-27 14:31

The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the threat's transition...

P2PInfect botnet targets REdis servers with new ransomware module
2024-06-25 10:00

P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. P2PInfect was first documented in July 2023 by Unit 42 researchers, targeting Redis servers using known vulnerabilities.

'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices
2024-06-24 14:39

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The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
2024-06-07 11:04

According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were associated with more than 19 million unique IP addresses, including 613,841 IP addresses located in the United States.

Muhstik Botnet Exploiting Apache RocketMQ Flaw to Expand DDoS Attacks
2024-06-06 13:14

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Muhstik has been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw impacting Apache RocketMQ to co-opt susceptible servers and expand its...