Security News

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
2018-11-08 07:58

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...

Rapidly Growing Router Botnet Takes Advantage of 5-Year-Old Flaw
2018-11-07 16:23

A sophisticated proxy code has infected hundreds of thousands of devices already.

Shellbot Botnet Targets Linux, Android Devices
2018-11-05 21:00

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

Bots and Botnets: Addressing the Security Challenges
2018-11-02 07:18

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 adds botnet infrastructure detection to Managed Security Services
2018-10-31 03:00

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...

Satori Botnet's Alleged Developer Rearrested
2018-10-30 16:48

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...

‘DemonBot' Botnet Targets Hadoop Servers
2018-10-29 14:12

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

Week in review: Top cyber attack sources, serverless botnets, CFO as best cybersecurity friend
2018-10-28 21:42

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...

Botnets Keep Brute-Forcing Internet of Things Devices
2018-10-24 14:33

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...

Poorly secured SSH servers targeted by Chalubo botnet
2018-10-24 12:47

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.