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U.S. Takes Aim at North Korea's Joanap Botnet
2019-01-31 13:35

U.S. Government Announces Initiative to Disrupt Joanap Botnet Associated With North Korean Regime  read more

FBI Mapping 'Joanap Malware' Victims to Disrupt the North Korean Botnet
2019-01-31 08:18

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Wednesday its effort to "map and further disrupt" a botnet tied to North Korea that has infected numerous Microsoft Windows computers across...

Team America tries to crash Little Rocket Man's Joanap botnet from within, warns owners of infected boxes
2019-01-31 02:27

So lonely, so lonely without my network of hacked PCs Uncle Sam has infiltrated and somewhat knackered what it claims is a North Korea-operated botnet of hijacked Microsoft Windows computers.…

Team America crashes Little Rocket Man's Joanap botnet from within, warns owners of infected Windows boxes
2019-01-31 02:27

So lonely, so lonely without my network of hijacked PCs Uncle Sam has infiltrated and knackered what it claims is a North Korea-operated botnet of hijacked Microsoft Windows computers.…

Miori IoT Botnet Targets Vulnerability in ThinkPHP
2019-01-03 20:57

A recent variant of the Mirai botnet is targeting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the ThinkPHP framework, Trend Micro security researchers warn.

Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends
2018-12-18 14:33

MikroTik, Hadoop clusters, legislation and more will mark the botnet space in 2019.

Attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities to enlarge their IoT botnets
2018-12-14 07:00

Attackers looking to add IoT devices to their botnets are increasingly adding vulnerability exploitation to their attack arsenal, Netscout researchers warn. Instead on just relying on a list of...

Massive botnet chews through 20,000 WordPress sites
2018-12-10 12:45

Attackers have infected 20,000 WordPress sites by brute-forcing administrator usernames and passwords.

Hackers Using NSA Hacking Tools to Build Botnet
2018-11-30 20:15

A Quarter Million Devices Vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet More than 270,000 Internet-connected devices run vulnerable implementations of UPnP and are susceptible to becoming part of a multi-purpose...

How to protect your business from botnets: 6 strategies
2018-11-29 17:25

Cybercriminals have recently broken records for DDoS strength. Here's how to protect your network from attacks, and prevent devices from being assimilated into botnets.