Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of ...

A newly discovered botnet of 13,000 MikroTik devices uses a misconfiguration in domain name server records to bypass email protections and deliver malware by spoofing roughly 20,000 web domains. The ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

The threat actors behind the RondoDox botnet are among the latest attackers to take advantage of the React2Shell flaw, weaponizing the vulnerability as an initial access vector to deploy other ...

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 ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

Thousands of ASUS routers were compromised and turned into a malicious botnet after hackers uncovered a troubling security vulnerability, experts have warned. “This appears to be part of a stealth ...

Most people who own a computer infected with botnet malware have no idea their machine is compromised. The software is designed to stay hidden, quietly connecting to remote servers, executing ...

The DDoS-capable Masjesu botnet focuses on evasion and persistence, but targets a broad range of IoT devices to spread.

A Chinese-controlled botnet of tens of thousands of unpatched internet-connected firewalls, network attached storage devices, internet-connected surveillance cameras, and small office/home office ...