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Recorded Future's "Insikt" threat intelligence research group has linked the Mirai variant IoTroop (aka Reaper) botnet with attacks on the Netherlands financial sector in January 2018. The...
Threatpost's Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint and Akamai to discuss how the two companies worked together to address the 2016 Mirai DDoS attacks.
The well-known Gozi ISFB banking Trojan recently started using the elusive "Dark Cloud" botnet for distribution, Talos warns. read more
A newly discovered Internet of Things (IoT) botnet is using two exploits to ensure it can not only bypass authentication on targeted devices, but also render additional protections useless, NewSky...
NewSky Security’s honeypots have detected a new IoT botnet in the making. The botnet was named DoubleDoor, as it leverages two distinct backdoors to get to the target: ZyXEL PK5001Z modems. The...
Emails try to get recipients to share revealing photos of themselves so scammers can later extort them later.
A new Monero-mining bot sprang up a few days ago and, in just a few days, has created a botnet consisting of over 7,000 Android devices, most of which are located in China (39%) and Korea (39%)....
A new crypto-mining botnet has been growing and targeting Android devices with an open ADB port, Qihoo 360's NetLab researchers reveal. read more
Peter Levashov Allegedly Distributed Spam, Ransomware via Kelihos BotnetRussian citizen Peter Levashov, arrested last year while vacationing in Spain, appeared Friday in U.S. federal court to face...
The botnet uses port scanning code from Mirai, a first for Android-related attacks, according to researchers.