A stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon has been infecting over 70,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers, creating a botnet primarily aimed at stealing bandwidth and operating as a hidden ...
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 ...
ASUS has released new firmware to patch a critical authentication bypass security flaw impacting several DSL series router ...
A newly discovered botnet is able to infect up to 100,000 home routers at a time, in order to blast out spam by connecting to webmail servers that host Outlook, Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts, ...
Mirai’s already claimed responsibility for one of the biggest Internet outages in history, knocking Twitter and several other major services offline last year. The source code for the malware is now ...
A new botnet campaign is tearing through unpatched TP-Link routers like a dodgy kebab through the bowels of an Essex drunk. Dubbed "Ballista," this nasty piece of work has already infected over 6,000 ...
WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – The US government has shut down a Chinese government-backed botnet that hijacked “hundreds” of small office and home office routers in the US. The hackers, known to the private ...
Old TP-Link router flaw is being abused again The threat actors are building out a botnet named Ballista They are operating ...
The FBI took down a botnet of small office/home office (SOHO) routers used by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) to proxy malicious traffic and to target the United ...
TP-Link patches two vulnerabilities in older SOHO routers Chinese threat actor Quad7 used the botnet for broad password-spraying attacks The flaws were severe enough to warrant firmware updates, ...
Security researcher Michael Coppola demonstrated how small and home office (SOHO) routers can be compromised and turned into botnet clients by updating them with backdoored versions of vendor-supplied ...
Botnet Attack Targeted Routers: A Wake-Up Call for Securing Remote Employees’ Hardware Your email has been sent The FBI spotted this state-sponsored attack that highlights how home office setups can ...