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Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug...
A sophisticated proxy code has infected hundreds of thousands of devices already.
An IRC bot built using Pearl is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices and Linux servers, but can also affect Windows systems and Android devices, Trend Micro warns. read more
Malicious bots and botnets are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated, and enterprises need to address them in their risk assessments and security frameworks, says Akamai's Aseem Ahmed.
NTT Security has developed a new network analytics technology to detect and defend NTT Group’s Managed Security Services (MSS) customers from attacks launched on botnet infrastructures. The new...
Potential Coincidence: IoT Botnet Reawakened After Suspect's Release on BailKenneth Schuchman, the alleged author of a supercharged variant of Mirai malware called Satori, has been rearrested for...
A newly discovered botnet is targeting Hadoop clusters in an attempt to leverage their computing power to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. read more
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Repairnator bot finds software bugs, successfully submits patches Can a bot create valid, high-quality fixes for...
Shotgun Attacks Target Default Username/Password Combinations via TelnetTwo years after Mirai botnets first appeared, security researchers say telnet-targeting botnets are attempting to compromise...
SophosLabs has detected a new DDoS botnet targeting poorly secured SSH servers - called Chalubo, it is named in honour of its use of the ChaCha stream cipher.