botnet

Botnets (from the English “robot” and “network”, that is, “robot networks”) are one of the main and most popular tools of modern cybercrime. Computer networks, which consist of tens, hundreds of thousands and even millions of host machines infected with bot programs, automatically perform...

Did your ping jump? Perhaps one of your rivals is a latent cyber villain. In today's digital world, where online games occupy a significant place in the lives of many people, cybercrime does not stand still. One of the most common types of attacks on game servers is DDoS attacks. These attacks...

How an international proxy network was used to steal social security payments. The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a network of cybercriminals that includes three Chinese citizens and three companies from Thailand. The subjects are linked to a large botnet that controlled a...

Hackers use more than 80 publicly available vulnerabilities to infect devices. Over the past three months, the hackers behind the CatDDoS botnet have exploited more than 80 known vulnerabilities in various software products to infect devices and integrate them into their network to conduct...

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Вредоносное ПО ботнета под названием Ebury, по оценкам, скомпрометировало 400 000 серверов Linux с 2009 года, из которых более 100 000 все еще были скомпрометированы по состоянию на конец 2023 года. Выводы сделаны словацкой фирмой ESET по кибербезопасности, которая охарактеризовала это как одну...

When will specialists finally be able to eliminate this elusive server monster? According to a recent report from ESET, the Ebury botnet has infected nearly 400,000 Linux servers since 2009. At the end of 2023, about 100,000 servers were still under threat. ESET researchers have been...

The corporation destroyed another way to infect systems. Microsoft has fixed a zero-day vulnerability that was actively used to spread the QakBot botnet on Windows systems. The heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2024-30051 (CVSS score 3.1: 7.8) affects the Desktop Window Manager...

CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 – one-way tickets for your network security. New vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure devices allow attackers to deploy the Mirai botnet. This is reported by security researchers from Juniper, indicating the active exploitation of two...

Law enforcement officers could not forgive Lefterov for infecting tens of thousands of American computers. In the United States, an indictment was filed against a Moldovan citizen, Alexander Lefterov, who is the owner of a large botnet network that infected thousands of computers across the...

A year-old vulnerability continues to add to the inventory of cybercriminals. Informs Fortinet that attackers continue to exploit a year-old vulnerability in TP-Link routers, adding routers to various botnets to conduct DDoS attacks. The command injection vulnerability CVE-2023-1389 (CVSS...

Update your system now to avoid cyber attacks. Positive Technologies specialists have discovered a number of dangerous vulnerabilities in the Nagios XI system designed for monitoring IT infrastructure. The software is used in data centers, telecommunications companies, hosting providers, and...

Intelligence operations of cybercriminals were interrupted by the US authorities. The US authorities destroyed a botnet that was used to conduct espionage and cyber attacks on American and international targets. The law enforcement operation was carried out in January and included the removal...

What is the risk of reorganizing KV-Botnet for American organizations? Cybersecurity specialists from Lumen note "behavioral changes" in the activities of the Chinese malicious KV-botnet network after US law enforcement agencies began to take measures to neutralize it. KV-botnet is a network...

The number of infected devices is growing every day. How do I protect myself? Beijing-based Qianxin identified a cybercrime network called "Bigpanzi" that infects Android TV and eCos devices with malware. The geography of infections is truly extensive, and the grouping has been functioning...

The distributed nature of the blockchain makes it possible to effectively mask malicious activity. Kaspersky Lab recently discovered a new feature-rich malware called NKAbuse, which uses the decentralized NKN communication protocol to exchange data between infected devices. NKN is described as...

Akamai analysts warn that the new Mirai botnet InfectedSlurs exploits two 0-day vulnerabilities for remote code execution on routers and NVR (Network Video Recorder). Infected devices become part of a DDoS botnet, which is then rented out to other attackers for profit. Although researchers...

Both simple routers and video surveillance devices are at risk. According to fresh data provided by cybersecurity company Akamai, researchers recently discovered a new botnet based on the legendary Mirai malware. The malicious infrastructure is called "InfectedSlurs". For distribution, it uses...

In 2016, three young American hackers, who recently started their career in this field, created a botnet called Mirai, with which they attacked major media, websites and companies for a long time. Their goal was to draw attention to the problem of vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things and...

The FBI eliminated the IPStorm botnet and its infrastructure after the IPStorm owner made a deal with the investigation in September. The US Department of Justice announced the dismantling of the IPStorm botnet infrastructure, which affected thousands of Linux, Mac and Android devices across...