P2PInfect, originally a dormant peer-to-peer malware botnet with unclear motives, has finally come alive to deploy a ransomware module and a cryptominer in attacks on Redis servers. According to Cado ...

KadNap botnet infects 14,000+ routers using DHT-based P2P control while ClipXDaemon hijacks crypto wallets on Linux X11.

Dutch coppers have pulled the plug on the Grum botnet just a week after the servers were identified by malware intelligence firm FireEye. The speedy removal of the servers shines light on how quickly ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

How did OpenClaw become botnet infrastructure so quickly? DataDome analyzes the hijacked AI agents scraping sites at scale ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

Security firm FireEye helps bring down the world's third-largest spam botnet, and its spam drops from a deluge down to a trickle One down, two more to go? On Wednesday a Russian Internet service ...

Ten years ago we raised awareness of Ebury by publishing a white paper we called Operation Windigo, which documented a campaign that leveraged Linux malware for financial gain. Today we publish a ...