Security News

Alleged Kelihos Botnet Mastermind Extradited to U.S.
2018-02-05 09:36

A 37-year-old Russian national accused of being the mastermind behind the notorious Kelihos botnet has been extradited from Spain to the United States. read more

JenX Botnet Has Grand Theft Auto Hook
2018-02-02 18:32

A GTA hosting site is offering powerful DDoS attacks for $20 a pop, researchers say.

New Botnet Is Recruiting IoT Devices
2018-02-02 13:12

A new botnet is recruiting Internet of Things (IoT) devices by exploiting two vulnerabilities already popular among IoT botnets, Radware has discovered. read more

Crypto-Mining Botnet Ensnares 500,000 Windows Machines
2018-02-02 10:39

Focused on mining Monero crypto-currency, a new botnet has managed to ensnare over half a million machines to date, Proofpoint reports. read more

Massive Smominru Cryptocurrency Botnet Rakes In Millions
2018-02-01 15:44

Researchers say Smominru threat actors are in control of 500,000 node botnet and earning $8,500 daily mining for Monero cryptocurrency.

Researchers Connect Lizard Squad to Mirai Botnet
2018-01-29 16:35

Lizard Squad and Mirai, which are responsible for a series of notorious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, are connected to one another, a recent ZingBox report reveals. read more

"Hide 'N Seek" IoT Botnet Ensnares 20,000 Devices in Days
2018-01-25 17:54

An Internet of Things (IoT) botnet featuring a worm-like spreading mechanism managed to ensnare over 20,000 devices over the course of several days, Bitdefender reports.  read more

Mirai-Based Masuta Botnet Weaponizes Old Router Vulnerability
2018-01-24 23:27

A new Internet of Things-targeting piece of malware based on Mirai’s publicly released source code has been observed at large, ensnaring devices into a botnet. read more

What has the Necurs botnet been up to?
2018-01-19 19:12

The Necurs botnet has been slowly growing since late 2012 and still tops the list of largest spam botnets in the world. Since then, the botnet has occasionally stopped or temporarily minimized the...

New Mirai Okiru Botnet targets devices running widely-used ARC Processors
2018-01-15 11:33

The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more extensive and is most likely to grow exponentially in 2018. Although the original creators of Mirai DDoS botnet have already been arrested...