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BotenaGo Botnet Code Leaked to GitHub, Impacting Millions of Devices

The malware had already put millions of routers and IoT devices at risk, and now any noob can have at it. The BotenaGo botnet source code has been leaked to GitHub, putting millions of routers and ...
Wired

GITHUB SURVIVED THE BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK EVER RECORDED

On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to ...

GitHub users targeted with dangerous malware attacks - here's what we know

GitHub is being weaponized as malware infrastructure, report warns Emmenhtal and Amadey are part of a coordinated, multi-layered attack chain Victims are mostly Ukrainian organizations, but all GitHub ...
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Gitpaste-12 Worm Targets Linux Servers, IoT Devices

The newly discovered malware uses GitHub and Pastebin to house component code, and harbors 12 different initial attack vectors. Researchers have uncovered a new worm targeting Linux based x86 servers, ...
ZDNet

New FreakOut botnet targets Linux systems running unpatched software

A newly identified botnet is targeting unpatched applications running on top of Linux systems, Check Point security researchers said in a report today. First seen in November 2020, the FreakOut botnet ...