botnets

A newly discovered botnet targets TCP port 8291 and vulnerable Mikrotik RouterOS-based devices. MikroTik, a Latvian hardware manufacturer, products are used around the world and are now a target of a new propagating botnet exploiting vulnerabilities in their RouterOS operating system, allowing ...

So the old Hajime botnet is coming back with a new exploit which was published only about 13 days ago ( https://t.co/UEAOTF4DiZ ), it also looks for some ... But this time around, attackers didn't joke around and they installed the Hajime bot, a strain of IoT malware known primarily for building giant botnets, ...

Security researchers have discovered malware that could be assembling a botnet army composed of five million compromised Android devices. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point said that the RottenSys malware was targeted at Android users through an app disguised as a WiFi service.

The fall 2016 Mirai botnet compromised more than 300,000 IoT devices as part of a massive DDoS attack. After the crippling attack, Flashpoint and Akamai worked together with law enforcement to help bring those behind the botnet attack to justice. Threatpost's Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint's ...

Security researchers have discovered malware that could be assembling a botnet army composed of five million compromised Android devices. Researchers from cyber security firm Check Point said that the RottenSys malware was targeted at Android users through an app disguised as a WiFi service.

Suspicious likes lead to researcher lighting up a 22,000-strong botnet on Twitter ... Botnets are fascinating to me. Who creates them? What are ... Patel continued his analysis and found that far from being some botnet-come-lately, some of these accounts — and by some I mean thousands and thousands!

The security teams shared with law enforcement more than 1,200 IP addresses for servers controlled by the Gamarue botnet as well as 464 individual botnets trolling the web and trying to deploy bugs from more than 80 different malware families. The FBI and law enforcement officials across the globe took ...

The attack, which authorities initially feared was the work of a hostile nation-state, was in fact the work of the Mirai botnet. This attack, which initially had much less grand ambitions — to make a little money off of Minecraft aficionados — grew more powerful than its creators ever dreamed possible. It's a story ...

IoT botnets attained notoriety in late 2016 when the Mirai botnet, comprised of hundreds of thousands of infected web cams, video recorders and routers, carried out a massive DDoS attack against an Internet traffic routing service called Dyn. Twitter, Amazon, Paypal and several other big-name companies ...

A widely-distributed banking trojan has once again been updated with new attack techniques as cyber criminals look to ensure their malware is as effective - and discreet - as possible in efforts to steal banking credentials from customers of various financial institutions. The Gozi ISFB banking trojan is now ...

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration put a draft report on botnet mitigation strategies out for public comment in January 2018, and is expected to provide an update later this year. Additionally, the National Institute for Standards and Technology announced Feb. 28 that it would ...

It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. ... The attack was impressive for 2015, but DDoS techniques and platforms—particularly Internet of Things–powered botnets—have evolved and grown ...

The Akamai data indicates that although there is a shift in automated attacks to credential abuse, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks remain a consistent threat, and the Mirai IoT botnet mainly of compromised internet-connected security cameras is still capable of strong bursts of activity. While other ...

Crooks are building a botnet that for the first time is bundling two exploits together in an attempt to bypass enterprise firewalls and infect devices. Discovered by researchers from NewSky Security, the botnet has been cleverly named DoubleDoor. According to Ankit Anubhav, NewSky Security Principal ...

Satori is based on Mirai, the open source Internet of Things malware that powered a series of botnets that delivered record-breaking distributed denial of service attacks in 2016 and debilitated core parts of the Internet for days. Unlike thousands of other Mirai variants, Satori featured a key improvement.

In their comment, the Coalition for Cybersecurity Policy and Law included a full framework to prevent DDoS and botnet attacks based on existing guidelines from the National Institute for Standards and Technology for security cyber infrastructure. In addition to detailing ways to bolster systems against ...

Cybercriminals circumvent these costs by using hacked devices and computers for mining. This job cannot be completed with single computer as it requires lot of processing power. Therefore, the cybercriminals cluster computers together and form a botnet. Botmasters, those who run botnets, can target IoT ...

Cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint last week reported a new botnet called Smominru that takes over systems and uses their combined computing power to mine for the cryptocurrency Monero. The Smominru botnet, according to Proofpoint researchers, uses the EternalBlue exploit to take advantage of a ...

The Smominru miner botnet turns infected machines into miners of the cryptocurrency Monero, according to research carried out by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. It apparently began operating in May of 2017 and has made its owners more than $3.5m since it was established. The beginning of Smominru ...

Akamai said that many of the botnets traditionally responsible for DDoS attacks are being used to abuse stolen login credentials. Of the 17 billion login ... The hospitality industry suffered was the biggest target of fraudulent credential attacks, with 82% of their login attempts being from malicious botnets.