The P2PInfect botnet worm is going through a period of highly elevated activity volumes starting in late August and then picking up again in September 2023. P2PInfect was first documented by Unit 42 ...

Check Point observes 40K+ attack attempts in 4 hours, with government organizations under fire A critical HPE OneView flaw is ...

Number of IoT devices (bots) engaged in botnet-driven DDoS attacks rose from around 200,000 a year ago to approximately 1 million devices This sharp increase, also supplemented by the increased use of ...

COMMERCE, Mich., Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Nuspire, a leading managed security services provider (MSSP), today announced the release of its Q3 2023 Cyber Threat Report. This comprehensive quarterly ...

Security researchers have discovered a significant increase in global botnet activity between December 2023 and the first week of January 2024, with spikes observed exceeding one million devices.

Attackers exploiting nearly decade-old D-Link router vulnerabilities drove a sharp rise in botnet activity in 2024 through variants of the Mirai and Kaiten taking advantage of unpatched devices. The ...

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets – isn’t there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, ...

Botnet activity on connected devices is up 500% thanks to default passwords, outdated software, and inadequate security ...

As a follow-up to last week’s article on detecting the presence of a botnet on your network, I have more advice from experts in this arena. IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force gives specific ...