Botnets are increasingly making up more and more of the malware traffic found on service provider networks, with cybercriminals using these Internet of Things bots for a range of malicious schemes, ...

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 ...

Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware Your email has been sent The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...

Popular for monitoring Docker containers, Wazuh is being exploited by two Mirai botnet variants — one of which aligns closely with researchers’ previously released proof-of-concept attack against the ...

A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of ...

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 ...