This story was originally published on February 24, and was updated on March 16 to include new information about affected devices and the number of victims. The new malware, which the agencies call ...

New variations of Mirai and the Gafgyt botnet are harnessing new vulnerabilities to compromise IoT devices, including the security flaw which caused the 2017 Equifax data breach. On Sunday, ...

Once it infects, Cyclops Blink can allow a hacker to remotely upload and download files to the device, including other malicious payloads. It can also be used to modify and disable the firewall device ...

Over three million infected IT devices recently used for especially powerful DDoS attacks. Now, apparently, there was an ...

KrebsOnSecurity is often the target of disgruntled cybercriminals and has now been targeted by a large and powerful botnet. The website, operated by security expert Brian Krebs, was subject to an ...

With the rise in the digital presence of businesses, comes the threat of botnets. In the first quarter of 2020, Kaspersky recorded a significant rise in the quantity and quality of DDoS attacks ...

The Mozi botnet is now a shell of its former self, thanks to a de facto kill switch triggered in August. Active since September 2019, Mozi is a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that enables distributed ...

Despite the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet, the vulnerability in WatchGuard firewalls used to build it persists, and it has now been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...

Recent large-scale botnet events, such as those used to disrupt Twitter and Facebook, have been highly publicized in the news. While these high-profile security events have been hard to miss, it's the ...

Are there Botnet controlled hosts on your network? Are your hosts infected with malware or spyware that is trying to “phone-home”? How would you know? One way to find out is to employ Cisco ASA’s new ...