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20,000-bots-strong Sathurbot botnet grows by compromising WordPress sites (Help Net Security)
2017-04-07 15:40

A 20,000-bots-strong botnet is probing WordPress sites, trying to compromise them and spread a backdoor downloader Trojan called Sathurbot as far and as wide as possible. Sathurbot: A versatile...

Video: TinyNuke botnet explained (Help Net Security)
2017-04-06 16:59

In the videos below, McAfee Labs show the setup requirements for installing and deploying TinyNuke. They review the available features of TinyNuke through the control panel, deploy a bot a client...

Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty (The Hackers News)
2017-03-29 03:47

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to...