Security News

Brain Food botnet infected 5,000+ websites with malicious PHP scripts in past 4 months
2018-05-23 14:16

The botnet tries to trick users into buying fake diet and brain-boosting pills in order to steal personal info. It does a great job of hiding itself, and it's spreading like wildfire.

Botnets Target Zero-Days in GPON Routers
2018-05-22 12:51

Two unpatched vulnerabilities in Dasan’s Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) routers are being exploited by Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, security researchers warn. read more

Wicked Botnet Uses Passel of Exploits to Target IoT
2018-05-21 13:01

The code is integrated with at least three exploits that target unpatched IoT devices, including closed-circuit cameras and Netgear routers.

"Wicked" Variant of Mirai Botnet Emerges
2018-05-17 18:21

A new variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has emerged, which features new exploits in its arsenal and distributing a new bot, Fortinet researchers warn. read more

5 Powerful Botnets Found Exploiting Unpatched GPON Router Flaws
2018-05-10 14:48

Well, that did not take long. Within just 10 days of the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in GPON router at least 5 botnet families have been found exploiting the flaws to build an army...

Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
2018-05-09 02:31

Researchers infected devices and totted up all the 'leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs' Website in 2016 cost...

Hide 'N Seek IoT Botnet Can Survive Device Reboots
2018-05-08 16:40

The Internet of Things (IoT) botnet known as  read more

Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets
2018-05-03 12:15

The blockchain sector is now bursting with innovation, with developers looking for new, pragmatic ways to use this secure distributed ledger technology across a range of applications. And as...

Major DDoS attack lasts 297 hours, as botnets bombard businesses
2018-04-27 12:48

In 2018, Q1 saw a DDoS attack that lasted 12 days, the longest since 2015, according to Kaspersky Lab.