The SSHStalker Linux botnet has ensnared 7,000 systems, deploying various scanners and malware, an IRC bot, and multiple kernel exploits.

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

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 ...

A new report out today from Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs details the activities of two different botnets observed through October and November that are being spread through vulnerabilities in ...

A Linux-based botnet is alive and well, powering cryptocurrency theft and financial scams years after the imprisonment of one the key perpetrators behind it. The Ebury botnet — which was first ...

Hackers resurrect 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker, using old exploits to quietly compromise thousands of Linux servers ...

A number of botnets are pummeling a nearly year-old command-injection vulnerability in TP-Link routers to compromise the devices for IoT-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There ...

A botnet targeting Internet of Things devices running on the Linux operating system works by brute forcing credentials and downloading cryptomining software. See Also: Cracking the Code: Securing ...

After years of hacking servers to swindle millions of dollars, the notorious Ebury malware gang had slipped into the shadows by 2021. Suddenly, they reemerged with a bang. The new evidence surfaced ...

The Androxgh0st malware botnet is used for victim identification and exploitation in targeted networks, as well as credentials collection. Read the FBI/CISA's tips for protecting against this malware ...

MySQL servers are being targeted by the 'Ddostf' malware botnet to enslave them for a DDoS-as-a-Service platform whose firepower is rented to other cybercriminals. This campaign was discovered by ...

Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to try and trick software security companies. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet — which is a network used to send out ...