Chances are that if you deploy a Linux server online these days and you leave even the tiniest weakness exposed, a cybercrime group will ensnare it as part of its botnet. The latest of these threats ...

DDG might be the world’s first P2P-based cryptomining botnet. The coin-mining botnet known as DDG has seen a flurry of activity since the beginning of the year, releasing 16 different updates over the ...

Turns out most modern malware attacks have one thing in common: a botnet communication channel between the attacker and the infected machine. It used to be that botnets were mainly for spewing benign, ...

The Phorpiex (aka Trik) botnet has existed for almost 10 years. First developed to distribute various malware like Gandcrab, Pony, and Pushdo to email users for the purpose of turning victim accounts ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered a campaign exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in D-Link routers to spread botnet malware. A botnet is a network of ...

Microsoft researchers say they are tracking a botnet that is leveraging bugs in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins. Unpatched vulnerabilities in the Spring Framework and WordPress plugins are ...

Microsoft has warned it has discovered a new variant of the Sysrv botnet, which deploys coin miners on both Windows and Linux systems. In a thread posted on the Microsoft Security Intelligence ...

A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet tracked as Beastmode (aka B3astmode) has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

The threat actor behind the internet's largest WordPress botnet is using an anti-adblocker script to make sure the ads they inject on hacked sites are showing up in users' browsers and generating a ...

A new Golang-based botnet under active development has been ensnaring hundreds of Windows devices each time its operators deploy a new command and control (C2) server. First spotted in October 2021 by ...