The FBI has dismantled a massive network of compromised devices that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have used for four years to mount attacks on government agencies, telecoms, defense contractors, ...

Security researchers have uncovered what could be the biggest ever botnet, capable of “crippling digital assaults” that could take down entire companies. Hackers performed what appeared to be a test ...

Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against ...

Another botnet built on the foundations of the infamous Mirai has been recently spotted in the wild, but only briefly - suggesting it might be preparing for a major attack. Security researchers from ...

In 2024 alone, botnets accounted for 29% of all observed malware, reclaiming their spot at the top of the cyberthreat landscape, according to ForeScout Technologies Inc.’s latest analysis of 900 ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

Aisuru smashed previous records with a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It appeared to have focused on telecommunications providers. Seemingly safe and small devices can be weaponized for massive cyberattacks.

For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested ...

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

A massive Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft 365 accounts with large-scale password spraying attacks that can bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), according to SecurityScorecard. The botnet, ...