Tag: Botnet

Sality Botnet Disrupted, but Infected PCs Still Need Cleanup

The Sality botnet lost its command channel, not its existing infections. Verify…

Brendan Smith

FBI Disrupts QTFY Router Botnet Behind China-Linked Attacks

The FBI and DOJ disabled QTFY’s QScan and QTRouter platforms. Compromised routers…

Brendan Smith

Dysphoria Botnet Hijacks Routers for DDoS and Proxy Relays

Dysphoria has grown to roughly 200,000 IoT bots and now uses blockchain-resolved…

Brendan Smith

TrickBot Uses DNS Tunneling to Hide Windows C2 Traffic

A current TrickBot variant hides C2 data in DNS queries and persists…

Brendan Smith

Lucide Proxy Turned Student Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet

Lucide Proxy used 148 npm packages to turn student browser tabs into…

Brendan Smith

FBI Seizes NetNut/Popa Botnet: Check Your TV Box

The FBI seized NetNut/Popa botnet domains. Learn why smart TVs and streaming…

Brendan Smith

Dutch Botnet Takedown Cuts Off 17M Devices

Dutch police and NCSC took down a botnet of at least 17…

Brendan Smith

Microsoft Details Kazuar Botnet Used by Secret Blizzard

Microsoft published a technical analysis of Kazuar, a modular Secret Blizzard botnet…

Stephanie Adlam

KimWolf Botnet: Android TV Boxes Used for DDoS Attacks

KimWolf is a large Android botnet that mainly targets TV boxes, set-top…

Daniel Zimmermann

SmartTube YouTube Client Hacked: Your Ad-Free TV App Just Became a Botnet

Using SmartTube on your Android TV to escape YouTube's aggressive ads? Bad…

Stephanie Adlam

GorillaBot: Advanced Mirai Variant Targeting IoT Devices with Enhanced DDoS Capabilities

GorillaBot is a sophisticated botnet malware that has been making headlines for…

Stephanie Adlam

New FritzFrog Botnet Sample Exploits Log4Shell and PwnKit

Researchers detected a new sample of FritzFrog malware, that is known for…

Stephanie Adlam

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