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Botnet
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Beware of the Attacks of Zombie Botnet
Cyberattacks and security threats can take many forms, but zombie botnets are particularly malicious and can often go…
February 4, 2022
Microsoft Azure customer hit by largest ever 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack
Microsoft says it mitigated a DDoS attack that lasted approximately 15 minutes against one of its Azure customers…
January 28, 2022
Microsoft Azure customer hit by 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack
Microsoft has confirmed that the DDoS attack against an Azure customer originated from a botnet comprising at least 70,000 compromised devices.
October 12, 2021
Mirai botnet exploiting Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities
The infamous Mirai botnet lets threat actors use compromised devices to carry out large-scale and crippling DDoS attacks.
September 20, 2021
Prometei botnet uses NSA exploit, hits unpatched MS exchange servers
Unpatched MS Exchange Servers are being hunted by Prometei botnet to expand its army of Monero cryptocurrency mining bots.
April 23, 2021
Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection
Cybercriminals are abusing Bitcoin transactions to carry out illegal crypto mining operations while staying under the radar.
February 24, 2021
Watch out as new Matryosh DDoS botnet hits Android devices
According to Netlab researchers, Matryosh DDoS botnet reuses the Mirai botnet framework. Here's how the malware works.
February 4, 2021
World’s Most ‘Resilient Malware’ Botnet Emotet Taken Down
Emotet malware botnet has been taken down by cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies after a joint global operation.
January 27, 2021
Ongoing ‘FreakOut’ malware attack turns Linux devices into IRC botnet
According to Checkpoint, the "FreakOut" malware attack is exploiting "newest vulnerabilities." Here's a full list of its capabilities.
January 20, 2021
US jails Russian hacker for 8 years over botnet, bank fraud
The hacker participated in a sophisticated scheme to steal, exchange sensitive financial, personal data, causing a loss of $100 million to the victims.
November 3, 2020