A malware botnet is exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in end-of-life GeoVision devices to compromise and recruit them for likely DDoS or cryptomining attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-11120 ...

A widely-used surveillance camera has been found carrying a high-severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to take over the device. Researchers from Akamai recently reported cybercriminals ...

Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a family of malware that wrangles infected Internet of Things devices into large networks ...

A new botnet has been slowly growing over the past year by brute-forcing SSH logins and deploying cryptomining malware on Linux servers. The main bot client is based on the old Mirai worm whose source ...

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 ...

Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say – the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed ...

The new V3G4 variant of Mirai, which creates botnets for DDoS attacks, exploited 13 different vulnerabilities in three campaigns over a six-month period, Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 team reports. Once ...

Researchers at cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. are warning of a new Mirai botnet variant that’s being used to target vulnerabilities in AVTECH Cameras and Huawei HG523 routers. The variant ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corero Network Security, the specialists in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection solutions, announced today a new threat research report, ...

Two separate Mirai botnet campaigns are exploiting a critical flaw in a somewhat unlikely target. The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team recently observed exploitation of CVE-2025-24016, a ...