SystemBC botnet hijacks VPS servers, making up 80% of its active proxy nodes Infected VPS machines relay traffic for phishing, brute-force, and ransomware operations Bots generate high-volume traffic ...

The attack tops the 22 Tbps assault from September. Cloudflare also estimates that the Aisuru botnet has grown to span 1 to 4 ...

A newly-discovered peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been found targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in Linux Webmin servers. Vulnerable Linux Webmin servers are under active attack by a ...

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru ...

The operators of a gaming server rental business are believed to have built an IoT DDoS botnet, which they are now offering as part of the server rental scheme. The prime and pretty obvious clue that ...

Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the ...

The persistence and spread of a newly identified botnet targeting private Minecraft Java servers has far wider ramifications for enterprises than bumming out a Biome. Microsoft researchers revealed in ...

In 2017, the number of command and control (C&C) servers used for managing IoT botnets has more than doubled, going from 393 in 2016 to 943 in 2017. The number is based on statistics provided by ...

Thanks to a poor initial launch followed a few months later by the Heartbleed scare, Healthcare.gov has had its share of security problems. Now, we can add one more security snafu to the list. In ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...

Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world. The botnet uses proprietary ...