Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of ...

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that's designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as ...

Law enforcement agencies have scored a major win against the world’s most predatory botnet operations, dismantling the infrastructure of four major networks responsible for some of the most aggressive ...

The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubernetes as an ...

The US says it disrupted the Aisuru botnet, notorious for launching record-breaking DDoS attacks throughout last year in an effort to shut down internet services and websites. The US partnered with ...

The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had infected more than 3 million devices in total, many inside home networks, according to the US Justice Department. The collection of millions of ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet operation called SSHStalker that relies on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) purposes. ...

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations. The protocol was invented in 1988, and its ...

Estimated to have infected 7,000 systems, the botnet uses a mass-compromise pipeline, deploying various scanners and malware. A newly identified Linux botnet is relying on decade-and-a-half-old ...

Cybersecurity researchers have recorded the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever disclosed, after the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched an unprecedented assault that peaked at 31.4 ...