2019’s most active malware botnet returns to life with new spam campaign after it previously went dark on February 7, 2020. …read more Source:: Open Source S
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DDoS botnet coder gets 13 months in prison
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•Kenneth Schuchman, known as Nexus Zeta, created multiple DDoS botnets, including Satori, Okiru, Masuta, and Fbot/Tsunami. …read more Source:: Open Source S
A botnet has been cannibalizing other hackers’ web shells for more than a year
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•Neutrino botnet is hijacking servers by taking over other hackers’ PHP and Java web shells. …read more Source:: Open Source S
A botnet is brute-forcing over 1.5 million RDP servers all over the world
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•Furthermore, statistics show that despite BlueKeep, most RDP attacks today are brute-force attempts. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Hacker ‘BestBuy’ sentenced to prison for operating Mirai DDoS botnet
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•Hacker knocked an entire country’s internet connection offline. …read more Source:: Open Source S
A botnet of over 20,000 WordPress sites is attacking other WordPress sites
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•Botnet is still up and running but law enforcement has been notified. …read more Source:: Open Source S
New Virobot ransomware will also log keystrokes, add PC to a spam botnet
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•Virobot will use locally installed Outlook instances to spam other users and spread a copy of itself. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Sly malware author hides cryptomining botnet behind ever-shifting proxy service
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•Botnet author appears to be successful at hiding cryptocurrency mining botnet behind reverse proxy network used by enterprises and the developer community. …read more Source:: Open Source S
New Hakai IoT botnet takes aim at D-Link, Huawei, and Realtek routers
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•Security researchers have spotted a new strain of IoT malware that has been growing in sophistication and silently infecting more and more devices online. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Necurs botnet launches fresh assault against banks
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•The spam botnet has been harnessed in order to compromise close to 3,000 financial institutions. …read more Source:: Open Source S