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Mirai botnet resurfaces with MooBot variant to target D-Link devices
The botnet is exploiting four different vulnerabilities in D-Link devices.
Google Fended Off Largest Ever Layer 7 DDoS Attack
According to Google, the geographic distribution of the DDoS attack suggests that it might have been launched through…
Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai
Mantis Botnet launched 3,000 DDoS attacks in one month using only 5,000 small bots after which Cloudflare dubbed…
Feds Dismantle Russian Rsocks Botnet Powered by Millions of IoT Devices
The hackers behind Rsocks botnet used the hacked IoT devices as proxy servers where its customers would pay…
New MaliBot Android Malware Found Stealing Personal, Banking Data
MaliBot Android Malware is also capable of bypassing 2FA (Two-factor authentication). F5 Labs researchers have discovered a new…
Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack
The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked…
The Growing Threat of Ransom DDoS Attacks Requires Effective Prevention and Mitigation
Essentially, ransom DDoS attacks are just DDoS with a ransom demand but a sudden increase in these attacks…
Cloudflare Successfully Thwarted One of The Largest DDoS Attacks
Cloudflare explained that it wasn’t the largest application-layer attack but the largest ever noted in the HTTPS category.…
FBI Disrupts Cyclops Blink Botnet Used by Russian Intelligence Directorate
According to US authorities, the Cyclops Blink botnet was controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)…
Kraken botnet bypass Windows Defender to steal crypto wallet data
Kraken botnet utilizes SmokeLoader malware, and its operators have already been raking in around $3,000 per month. ZeroFox…