Security News

Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time
2018-09-19 16:54

Citing "extraordinary cooperation" with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using...

New Malware Combines Ransomware, Coin Mining and Botnet Features in One
2018-09-19 15:48

Windows and Linux users need to beware, as an all-in-one, destructive malware strain has been discovered in the wild that features multiple malware capabilities including ransomware,...

How credential stuffing contributed to 8.3B malicious botnet logins in early 2018
2018-09-19 15:20

Malicious login attempts from bots increased by by almost 2 billion from April to May 2018. Here's who is at risk.

Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail
2018-09-19 14:18

Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to...

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet
2018-09-13 13:48

The Russian man who was accused of operating the infamous Kelihos botnet has finally pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court. Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty...

Russian Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet
2018-09-13 12:18

Peter Levashov's Botnets Spread Spam, Banking Trojans and RansomwareRussian national Peter Levashov, who was arrested in Spain last year and extradited to the U.S., has admitted to a two-decade...

Kelihos Botnet Author Pleads Guilty in U.S. Court
2018-09-13 05:16

Peter Yuryevich Levashov, a 38-year-old Russian national accused of operating the notorious Kelihos botnet, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft...

Mirai, Gafgyt Botnets Return to Target Infamous Apache Struts, SonicWall Flaws
2018-09-10 14:23

By implementing the "Equifax bug," it's the first known time a Mirai IoT botnet variant has targeted an Apache Struts vulnerability.

IoT Botnets Target Apache Struts, SonicWall GMS
2018-09-10 11:58

The infamous Mirai and Gafgyt Internet of Things (IoT) botnets are targeting vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and the SonicWall Global Management System (GMS), Palo Alto Networks has discovered. read more

Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds
2018-09-03 10:59

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a...