Cyber criminals are exploiting IoT devices in homes to create a botnet called BADBOX 2.0, enabling illegal online activities. Most compromised devices are manufactured in China and become infected ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

Criminals have secretly hijacked more than 14,000 devices worldwide in order to carry out attacks that are almost impossible ...

A vulnerability in an old camera is being used to create a botnet The camera is no longer supported by its vendor and will ...

Aquabotv3 is actively exploiting a known vulnerability in Mitel devices to include them in its botnet, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence and Response Team. A third variant of the Mirai-based ...

US Accuses Chinese Company of Running Botnet Via Hijacked Routers, IoT Devices The US and UK claim a Chinese company called Integrity Technology Group infected hundreds of thousands of IoT devices to ...

Technology is hard. So companies try to make it as easy as possible. But sometimes their attempts to make it easy for consumers mean making it easy for hackers, ultimately resulting in consumers’ ...

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 ...

Hackers are taking advantage of D-Link home routers left unpatched for a decade and turning them into a newly formed botnet researchers dubbed "Goldoon." The vulnerability allows attackers to execute ...

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 ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home ...

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 ...