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A sophisticated botnet known as MyloBot has compromised thousands of systems, with most of them located in India, the U.S., Indonesia, and Iran. "What makes Mylobot dangerous is its ability to download and execute any type of payload after it infects a host," Lumen's Black Lotus Labs said in November 2018.

A new version of the MyloBot malware has been observed to deploy malicious payloads that are being used to send sextortion emails demanding victims to pay $2,732 in digital currency. MyloBot, first detected in 2018, is known to feature an array of sophisticated anti-debugging capabilities and propagation techniques to rope infected machines into a botnet, not to mention remove traces of other competing malware from the systems.

A new botnet from the Dark Web displays a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools.