A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes.
Beyond Mirai’s usual functions, the new code features include encrypted communications with command-and-control servers and a “sniffer” that looks for default access credentials.
Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year.
Flare researchers analyzed thousands of underground posts to examine how the BTMOB Android malware operation evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of resellers, source-code vendors, custom versions, and competing sales channels.
Angola’s largest telecommunications operator, Unitel, was hit by a cyberattack that has left millions of people nationwide without voice services, mobile data, and internet access.
A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and traffic relay operations.
U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against three Russian nationals, accusing them of providing bulletproof hosting (BPH) services to ransomware gangs that caused over $62 million in damages to victims worldwide.
A top Ukrainian security official described two previously unreported attacks on TV media organizations and said Russia has ramped up hacking activities against the industry.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum…
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers…
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the…
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed…
