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Researchers discovered an active Twitter botnet made up of 38,000 bots, generating 8.5 million tweets and netting over 30 million clicks from its victims.
Up to $25 Million in Payment Card Losses Tied to Naturalized US CitizenRussian-born Alexander Tverdokhlebov has been sentenced to serve nine years in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to causing...
The Necurs spam botnet has switched back to distributing the Locky ransomware in a campaign featuring messages disguised as fake invoices, Cisco Talos security researchers reveal. read more
Newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting DVR systems could open the door to new, more potent Internet of Things (IoT) botnets, Pen Test Partners security researchers warn. read more
The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of...
Thousands of IP cameras have been hijacked by Internet of Things (IoT) botnets and data from Trend Micro shows that the recently launched Persirai malware is responsible for a large percentage of...
Weeks Before WannaCry, Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Was Using Windows SMB Exploit (The Hackers News)
A security researcher has just discovered a stealthy cryptocurrency-mining malware that was also using Windows SMB vulnerability at least two weeks before the outbreak of WannaCry ransomware...
