Security News

Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them (ArsTechnica)
2017-04-19 02:18

Spammer’s Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet (Threatpost)
2017-04-11 17:43

Notorious spammer Peter Levashov was arrested over the weekend; Levashov is the alleged botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet.

US disrupts giant botnet used for spam and ransomware (ZDNet)
2017-04-11 12:48

Spanish cops snatch suspected top spammer as US moves against Kelihos botnet (The Register)
2017-04-11 05:33

U.S. Takes Down Kelihos Botnet After Its Russian Operator Arrested in Spain (The Hackers News)
2017-04-11 00:51

A Russian computer hacker arrested over the weekend in Barcelona was apparently detained for his role in a massive computer botnet, and not for last year's US presidential election hack as...

US Takes Down Huge Botnet as Spain Arrests Notorious Russian Hacker (SecurityWeek)
2017-04-11 00:35

Feds deliver fatal blow to botnet that menaced world for 7 years (ArsTechnica)
2017-04-10 23:48

Alleged Kelihos Botnet Author Arrested in Spain (SecurityWeek)
2017-04-10 12:48

Sathurbot Botnet Targets WordPress Accounts (SecurityWeek)
2017-04-07 19:18

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...