Attackers are compromising Linux and Windows systems to install a new malware program designed for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to researchers from the Polish ...

A new cross-platform malware botnet named 'MCCrash' is infecting Windows, Linux, and IoT devices to conduct distributed denial of service attacks on Minecraft servers. The botnet was discovered by ...

Netscout researchers identify more than 14,000 existing servers that can be abused by ‘the general attack population’ to flood organizations’ networks with traffic. Cybercriminals can exploit ...

Singapore, 8 th May, 2024 - New data from Nexusguard’s DDoS Statistical Trends Report 2024 reveals bad actors are shifting DDoS tactics. Computers and servers became the primary target of attacks, ...

SafeBreach researchers demonstrate how attackers can crash Windows domain controllers and build a botnet using unauthenticated RPC and LDAP vulnerabilities. At DEF CON 33, security researchers ...

A Russian script kiddie using little more than publicly available malware tools and exploits targeting weak credentials and configurations has assembled a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet ...

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 ...

The Log4Shell vulnerabilities in the widely used Log4j software are still leveraged by threat actors today to deploy various malware payloads, including recruiting devices into DDoS botnets and for ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed ...

Microsoft is the latest major tech firm to find that its resources are being misused as part of a DDoS attack. It has been reported that Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are being ...