The newly discovered malware infects IoT devices in tandem with the prolific Gafgyt botnet, using known security vulnerabilities. A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the ...

Dubbed Aisuru, the botnet is part of a new class of DDoS-capable malware, referred to as TurboMirai. The threats are reminiscent of the infamous Mirai IoT botnet, and can launch DDoS attacks that ...

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 ...

Nokia has released a report analyzing 10,000 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past two years, further illustrating that organizations need to be ready in case of potential cyber ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...

A new DDoS-as-a-Service botnet called "Condi" emerged in May 2023, exploiting a vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) Wi-Fi routers to build an army of bots to conduct attacks. AX1800 is a ...

Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Over 13,000 infected devices were harnessed for the ...

Content distribution network (CDN) firm Cloudflare says the botnet behind the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks it has recorded has targeted nearly 1,000 of its customers in the ...

Within the last few months, more and more DDoS attacks have taken place, with the aim being to knock powerful websites out of action. The attacks have grown in size, with an overall increase of around ...

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Botnet DDoS attacks passed the 40 Gigabits/sec mark in 2008, according to Arbor Networks. The sheer size of today’s Botnets has reached into the ...

A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He's being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new Rapper ...